I believe what you've said is correct... because I'm pretty sure I read it in the documentation.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/04/14 20:44, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Thank you for explanation. > I have a question with regards to that EFI. Does it refer to this > /dev/sda1 2M BIOS boot partition? > So this partition needs to be formatted to DOS file system and mounted in > /boot/efi directory? > Gentoo Documentation is very outdated and confusing when it comes to this > new GRUB2. > Sometimes I want to scrap this crap and go back to standard legacy GRUB. > > -- > Joseph > >
