Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 11:32:40 I wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 11:10:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > As long as the source file is still in $DISTDIR, you don't need to do > > anything. > > You could put the file somewhere; personal web space, github > > etc, and change the SRC_URI to point to it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 24 Aug 2016 11:57:04 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 22 Aug 2016 21:08:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> > I really don't understand the urgency

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-24 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 22 Aug 2016 21:08:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. >> > Like grub1, it will still work

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 21:00:47 Mick wrote: > I have built a UEFI system with no initramfs (I don't need it), or > systemd (I don't want it), or any assisting boot manager. I have been > happily using the EFI kernel stub and on the rare occasion I need to boot > an alternative kernel I press F2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 15:06:03 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 08:21:36 Michael Mol wrote: > > If you're not frequently jumping to a non-default boot environment, it's > > fine. > > That's my problem: I do often want to start a minimal system. As I said > before not far from here,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 08:21:36 Michael Mol wrote: > If you're not frequently jumping to a non-default boot environment, it's > fine. That's my problem: I do often want to start a minimal system. As I said before not far from here, any time a substantial update is needed, especially if it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Michael Mol
On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 10:41:50 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 05:18:02 Tom H wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I > > > had a look at

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 11:10:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: > As long as the source file is still in $DISTDIR, you don't need to do > anything. > You could put the file somewhere; personal web space, github > etc, and change the SRC_URI to point to it, but that's not really > necessary. Can a SRC_URI be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:15:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. > > > Like grub1, it will still work in 10 years time... > > > > I agree, just copy it to a local overlay. > > How would I manage the distfile, which at present

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:12 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2016 02:59:55 PM Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim >> >> wrote: >> > Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim > wrote: >> Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a boot-loader means >> you have no way to provide command-line or initramfs as

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 05:18:02 Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I > > had a look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be > > able to use it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I had a > look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be able to use > it instead, but one thing puzzles me: is it possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 22 Aug 2016 21:08:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. > > Like grub1, it will still work in 10 years time... > > I agree, just copy it to a local overlay. How would I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 22, 2016 02:59:55 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim > > wrote: > > Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a boot-loader means > > you have no way to provide command-line or initramfs as far as I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I've no idea how tightly bootctl (as gummibot is now called after its > assimilation in the the systemd collective) is bound to systemd. It may > well be feasible to create an ebuild that builds bootctl from the systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 15:59:41 +, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. > Like grub1, it will still work in 10 years time... I agree, just copy it to a local overlay. If a serious bug does arise, you then have the choice of trying to persuade

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > Booting straight into linux on an EFI system without a boot-loader means > you have no way to provide command-line or initramfs as far as I can > tell, all modules must be compiled in, and default command-line

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-22 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 22. aug. 2016 17:05, skrev Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I had a > look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be able to use > it instead, but one thing puzzles me: is it possible to create a set of >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-22 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/22/2016 08:59 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I really don't understand the urgency in treecleaning gummiboot. > Like grub1, it will still work in 10 years time... > > -- > Joost > I agree, I still use grub1 on most my installs. No EFI (computers are old) and just haven't bothered going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On August 22, 2016 5:05:10 PM GMT+02:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: >Hello list, > >Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I >had a >look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be able >to use >it instead, but one thing puzzles

[gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

2016-08-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I had a look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be able to use it instead, but one thing puzzles me: is it possible to create a set of configs for several kernels, the way gummiboot does in