On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 10:27:49 +0100 Matti Nykyri <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 1, 2015, at 6:58, German <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Now I need to get to /boot partition of my faulty install and edit > > gummiboot .conf file. Can someone walk me through on how to accomplish > > this? ( step-by-step commands ). Of course I have a rescuecd at my > > disposal. Thanks! > > Boot into the rescuecd > Open your first disk with gdisk or parted: > gdisk /dev/sda > > List partitions (p<enter> in gdisk and print in parted) > > Find a partition of the type EF00. That is your UEFI boot partition. Mark > down the number of that partition. The number most likely 1. > > If you didn't find EF00 partition search the next disk (sdb). > > Mount your boot partition (in my setup it is sda1): > mkdir /uefipartition > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /uefipartition > nano /uefipartition/loader/entries/gentoo.conf > Thanks, worked like a charm. I was able to boot! > Just edit and save and you are done. If you have everything setup as in the > wiki (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gummiboot) this will work. Neil gave the > same instructions... This is just a bit more detailed. > > I like to always keep grub installed because it is like swiss army knife for > booting. You can always get a shell and find your lost kernel image. Even if > it is still in /usr/src... So you kind of like never render your system to an > unbootable state. Nor would need to use rescue cd. And you can boot windows, > memtest, chainload etc! > > -- > -Matti > > > -- German <[email protected]>
