Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

2016-10-12 Thread Daniel Quinn
On 12/10/16 19:15, Mick wrote: > The OP can mount and have a look in those partitions for any efi files, which > would be a give away; or in MSWindows 10, go to Start menu, press and hold > the Shift key, and click Restart. Then select Troubleshoot/Advanced Options > and check to see if there is

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

2016-10-12 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 12 Oct 2016 11:42:56 Andy Mender wrote: > Dear Daniel, > > You don't mention what is "the prettiest desktop there ever was", but I > reckon that it's a) a 64-bit PC and b) it's modern enough to have UEFI, not > the standard BIOS. Therefore, the drive is a GPT-partitioned drive (as >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

2016-10-12 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Daniel, You don't mention what is "the prettiest desktop there ever was", but I reckon that it's a) a 64-bit PC and b) it's modern enough to have UEFI, not the standard BIOS. Therefore, the drive is a GPT-partitioned drive (as that's UEFI's requirement) and you have a /boot or /boot/efi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

2016-10-12 Thread Daniel Quinn
On 11/10/16 22:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > As far as I know, you can’t use UEFI on a msdos partitioned hard drive. > So… are you not just using an old but known and stable BIOS? Honestly, that hadn't occurred to me. The BIOS is fancy (lots of colour and supports a mouse!) and I thought that

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

2016-10-11 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Tue Oct 11 22:19:04 2016, Daniel Quinn wrote: > So what do I tell grub and the kernel to use for boot information? The > handbook mentioned that there were differences between gpt and msdos > partition setups, but the machine came this way, setup with msdos on the > first disk and I'd rather

[gentoo-user] How to find the EFI partition?

2016-10-11 Thread Daniel Quinn
I just bought the prettiest desktop there ever was and I'm having trouble with the install. I'm quite comfortable with a BIOS setup, but UEFI is still making my brain hurt and Windows 10 co-existing on the machine isn't helping. Basically, I can't find where to tell Grub and everything else to