On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 17:16 -0400, Henry W. Peters wrote: > I sent this to the grub.dev list, no reply, probably wrong list, > anyway help/directions appreciated (as mentioned below). > > My cpu is an AMD64, HP Pavillion desktop, with 8GB ram, 2TB hd (which > I have shrunk the Windows 8 os partition to 1 TB, in the hopes of > installing Gentoo on the other TB partition (which has not yet > transpired). > > I am currently running Sabayon 3.10.0 with Grub2 on an external usb > hd, dual booting with Windows 8... (I believe Grub2 is on my mbr on > usb hd), & the "new" uefi bios. I am able to boot by turning off > (disabling) "secure boot," & enabling "legacy." > > I have been trying to research ways to simplify the boot process... > there is a wiki article, specific to uefi & Sabayon... but it starts > of with: > > "This content is outdated! Sabayon now supports UEFI and UEFI Secure > Boot out of the box." > > http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=UEFI_Boot > > When I installed Sabayon, from the liveDVD, it would not (apparently) > install Grub (it may be possible that the initial install was not Grub > 2, that is I think it's possible Grub2 was brought to me by a recent > "update" of my software) on to the efi partition (in my > case /dev/sda2). > > So, though I may need to go to other sources for further reference in > these regards, wondering if any one in the Grub community has any > pointer, advice, links, etc. that may help clarify... (i.e., is Grub > relevant to uefi, etc.?). > > Thanks much, > > Henry > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > Help-grub@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
The simple way is rEFInd with no grubs or lilos or syslinux recommend https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Dual_boot_with_Windows_7/8 _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list Help-grub@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub