Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-28 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Feb 27, 2015, at 12:23, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 02/27/2015 01:09 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:57, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: Make a partition for gentoo and format it. Untar stage3 and portage snapshot to it (snapshot is

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-27 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 Feb 2015 12:08:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:42:45 -0500, German wrote: Install grub: grub2-install --target=x86_64-uefi /to/your/partition Are you sure that grub is needed for EFI system? I doubt it. I used efibootmgr as per gentoo handbook. And it was

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:02:36 -0500, German wrote: Hi people. I am about to try today an EFI gentoo install with sysrecuecd. It is all more or less clear to me in the install docs, however I am not sure how to gather info about my hardware, which modules should be compiled when installing

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-27 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 02/27/2015 01:09 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:57, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: Make a partition for gentoo and format it. Untar stage3 and portage snapshot to it (snapshot is faster than rsync). Chroot. Emerge portage and grub. I copied kernel from my old

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-27 Thread German
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:57:28 +0200 Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:02, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Hi people. I am about to try today an EFI gentoo install with sysrecuecd. It is all more or less clear to me in the install docs, however I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 06:42:45 -0500, German wrote: Install grub: grub2-install --target=x86_64-uefi /to/your/partition Are you sure that grub is needed for EFI system? I doubt it. I used efibootmgr as per gentoo handbook. And it was also said that it is possible to boot EFI system

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-26 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:57, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: Make a partition for gentoo and format it. Untar stage3 and portage snapshot to it (snapshot is faster than rsync). Chroot. Emerge portage and grub. I copied kernel from my old system to /boot. If you don't have this build a

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-26 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 Feb 2015 06:09:25 Matti Nykyri wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:57, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: Make a partition for gentoo and format it. Untar stage3 and portage snapshot to it (snapshot is faster than rsync). Chroot. Emerge portage and grub. I copied kernel from

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-26 Thread Dale
German wrote: Hi people. I am about to try today an EFI gentoo install with sysrecuecd. It is all more or less clear to me in the install docs, however I am not sure how to gather info about my hardware, which modules should be compiled when installing kernel manually. Is there a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-26 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:02, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Hi people. I am about to try today an EFI gentoo install with sysrecuecd. It is all more or less clear to me in the install docs, however I am not sure how to gather info about my hardware, which modules should be compiled when

Re: [gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-26 Thread German
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:33:34 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: German wrote: Hi people. I am about to try today an EFI gentoo install with sysrecuecd. It is all more or less clear to me in the install docs, however I am not sure how to gather info about my hardware, which modules

[gentoo-user] About to attempt EFI install, which modules to compile?

2015-02-26 Thread German
Hi people. I am about to try today an EFI gentoo install with sysrecuecd. It is all more or less clear to me in the install docs, however I am not sure how to gather info about my hardware, which modules should be compiled when installing kernel manually. Is there a way to gather this info?