On 09/04/2014 08:14 PM, Joseph wrote: > On 09/04/14 19:41, Daniel Frey wrote: >> On 09/04/2014 05:36 PM, Joseph wrote: >>> When I installed grub2 I got no errors: >>> grub2-install /dev/sda >>> Installation finished. No error reported. >>> >> >> If you are trying to boot in EFI mode, you aren't installing it >> correctly. That installed to the MBR in legacy mode. >> >> >> Instructions are here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 >> >> You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before >> installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi`. > > I'm still lost with this grab2, very confusing. Gentoo official > documentation did not mention any of this :-/ > > Official documentation did ask to create /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot > partition but there was no instruction how to mount it or format it. > I was under impression Grub2 will do all of this. > I booted with CD-minimal and there is no "mkdosfs" command. > > Do I need to format the /dev/sda1? > > If I do: > mkfs -t vfat -F 32 -n efi-boot /dev/sda1 > mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory >
I forgot to mention in my last post that you absolutely must boot from an EFI-enabled kernel, the gentoo ISOs do not do this. I used the Mint 17 ISO to do this, when you go to boot options it should list it as EFI bootable. Dan
