Re: [gentoo-user] snafu: the update

2017-01-27 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> AFAIK, when you load the kernel directly from the EFI firmware, it has >> to have the ".efi" suffix. But that doesn't explain why it would stall >> when loaded from grub... >> >> Somewhat OT: Regarding

Re: [gentoo-user] snafu: the update

2017-01-25 Thread Alan Grimes
Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: >> The linux kernel stalls stone cold dead in either direct from firmware >> or pass through grub mode. > AFAIK, when you load the kernel directly from the EFI firmware, it has > to have the ".efi" suffix.

Re: [gentoo-user] snafu: the update

2017-01-25 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > > The linux kernel stalls stone cold dead in either direct from firmware > or pass through grub mode. AFAIK, when you load the kernel directly from the EFI firmware, it has to have the ".efi" suffix. But that doesn't

[gentoo-user] snafu: the update

2017-01-25 Thread Alan Grimes
I re-installed grub and now it boots through the grub menu to the point of handing off to the linux kernel. The linux kernel stalls stone cold dead in either direct from firmware or pass through grub mode. So I think Grub is 97.6% exonerated at this point. This is my standard kernel.org pure