On Thursday, February 2, 2023 1:15:51 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: > On 02.02.23 12:33, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Please only send mails to the list. > > There is no need to add me to the TO or CC lists. > > > > On Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:22:49 PM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: > >> On 02.02.23 10:51, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> On Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:42:40 AM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: > >>>> Is there andbody using refind? Especially in Germany? > >>>> I have some questions about. > >>> > >>> If you have questions, feel free to ask on this list. > >>> I am sure I am not the only one using it. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Joost > >> > >> Joost, > >> > >> my current system boots from bios(mbr) not uefi. > >> > >> My knowlege of uefi is poor and uefi is still confusing me. > >> So it may be some of my questions will looking silly for you. > > > > Did you read the well-written howto on the Gentoo website? > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind[1] > > > > > > > > -------- > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind > > Joost, > > no. Thanks for the hint, I had just a short look into at it. > > There is presupposed that one is at a uefi system already. > > I have to install refind to a disk mounted to my mbr-booted-system, > make all necessary adjustments there and then put it to the uefi-only > machine and boot it there. > > So I cannot call efibootmanger to pin refind to nvram of the uefi-system.
Use a USB boot-stick with EFI image, like the gentoo one. See the relevant section in the Gentoo installguide: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Media[1] -------- [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Media
