The project of writing a hint for Grub and UEFI has morphed into, at
least for me and my laptop, a non-trivial exercise. The problem is that
HP hard codes the path to the Windows boot loader and over writes any
changes I make to the boot order of the OS Boot Manager. As a result, I
cannot, as things stand now, test the hint procedures on my own machine.
I bought an iMac a couple of days ago, so my iTunes issue is resolved.
Ultimately, I want my laptop to be completely linux, but I obviously
don't want to nuke, except for windows, what I already have.
I have an Ubuntu install image on a flash drive, but I want to put Grub
on one and use EFI. I know how to install a grub image there and I'm
going to compile modules into the image so Grub doesn't have to look for
them. When I get this done and can boot with that new flash drive I
want to remove windows and the HP stuff.
My plan is this: delete *all* the non-linux files and directories from
my EFI partition, reset the boot order and then cross my fingers and
restart. If this works, then it's "trash windows" time. When that
happens, I will be moving partitions around.
First of all, does anyone have any comments or guidance on deleting the
files and directories from the EFI partition and then booting? I think
it's pretty straight forward and, from everything I've read,
*conceptually* I should get the results that I want. I just want to be
as prepared as I can be.
Secondly: I have let grub-mkconfig write the current configuration
files for grub until I can find the minimum number of modules I need to
manually generate a grub.cfg. The current grub.cfg uses UUID's for the
partitions. I can't find any info on the question I'm about to ask.
When a partition is created on a gpt disk, does it retain it's UUID even
if the partition moves or gets resized? If it keeps the UUID, then
rebooting after I rearrange the furniture on my hard drive becomes
merely a matter of setting root in the grub command line and pointing
"configfile" to the appropriate place. Otherwise, I'll have to issue
all the commands to grub to boot the LFS I want.
Comments? Guidance? Gotchas?
Thanks,
Dan
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