On Thursday 08 November 2012 13:53:22 Randolph Maaßen wrote:
> 2012/11/8 <[email protected]>
>
> > Over the last few days I have tried to set up using uefi gpt and
grub2.
> > After many hours of frustration I have gone back to grub legacy
and mbr.
> >
> > I followed the Gentoo wiki and Arch wiki and several other
sources of
> > which I failed miserably. Is this technology fairly unreliable? I
booted
> > from a uefi enabled usb stick but still fell over. Is this ready for
> > mainstream or
> >
> > still alpha like?
> >
> > Also does ufibootmgr change motherboard firmware? Somehow
this feels
> > wrong if the case.
> >
> > John D Maunder
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried installing UEFI GPT too a few months ago, but I had a semi
success.
> After some days of fiddeling around with parameters and variables I
could
> boot the system, but I can't see the kernel output or open-rc. But the
X
built-in efifb and add video=efifb to kernel command line.
> loads and the system works after that like normal, but without the
textual
> ttys. terminal emulations like xterm or so work. So I would install it
> again, but it isn't as easy as thought.
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