Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2017-12-15 Thread Marc Joliet
(I've got a bad habit of saving unfinished emails in the drafts folder and then forgetting about them. I found this one while cleaning it up and thought it might still be informative.) On Tuesday 12 April 2016 10:56:56 Adam Carter wrote: >> The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:56:56 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > I also failed to get grub2 + UEFI working. So either; > 1. We're both dummies > 2. The handbook instructions are incorrect and/or inadequate > > Can anyone else that is familiar comment on the grub2 + UEFI doc > quality? ISTR getting GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-11 Thread R0b0t1
None of this is grub's fault, it's users are just petulant children. It's bloated but pick a real argument.

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-11 Thread Sam Jorna
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:31:42PM -0400, Poison BL. wrote: > The file 'bootx64.efi' is the default that uefi looks for when booting > a 'disk' in a quasi-bios-style fallback (if there's not a real 'boot > this particular thing' like the windows boot manager adds), which also > makes the

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-11 Thread Poison BL.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > >> The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which UEFI never ran. >> >> The fix was to get rid of grub altogether and instead use >> sys-boot/gummiboot. >> Not only was it fully functional, it was a welcome relief

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-11 Thread Adam Carter
> The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which UEFI never ran. > > The fix was to get rid of grub altogether and instead use > sys-boot/gummiboot. > Not only was it fully functional, it was a welcome relief not to have to > grapple with grub's baroque complexity and to be able to return to

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 7th April 2016 I wrote: > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an > M.2 interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions > /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... > After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI system, I get >