Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 06:14:16 -0500, R0b0t1 wrote: > It is a matter of unpacking the ISO. I got most of the way through doing > this before giving up as the ISO has a lot of assumptions built into it. It turns out to be a trivial task: Loop mount the ISO Copy the kernel, initramfs and filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 06:14:16 -0500, R0b0t1 wrote: > It is a matter of unpacking the ISO. I got most of the way through doing > this before giving up as the ISO has a lot of assumptions built into it. Reading your posts is like walking into a room partway through a conversation. Can you please

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-09 Thread R0b0t1
It is a matter of unpacking the ISO. I got most of the way through doing this before giving up as the ISO has a lot of assumptions built into it. I ended up just using GRUB.

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 08:40:46 +0100, Mick wrote: > > The usual complaint about GRUB2 is that it is too complex, so minimal > > is good here. I only have it installed to be able to boot my System > > Rescue ISO in an emergency, I've not found a way to go that without > > GRUB. > > I have used

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 Apr 2016 08:22:16 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 9 April 2016 06:43:50 BST, pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > > Neil Bothwick wrote : > > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote: > > > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi > > > > This one is what your UEFI's

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 9 April 2016 06:43:50 BST, pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote : > > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote: > > > > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi > > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any > other > > > files in

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-09 Thread peter
pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote : > Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk> > wrote : > > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote: > > > > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi > > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any other > > > files in /boot/efi/boot/ makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-08 Thread peter
Neil Bothwick wrote : > On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote: > > > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any other > > files in /boot/efi/boot/ makes me suspect Grub's not actually > > installed in

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:26:31 -0400, Poison BL. wrote: > --> /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi <-- > > This one is what your UEFI's loading at boot. The lack of any other > files in /boot/efi/boot/ makes me suspect Grub's not actually > installed in quite the right spot for the UEFI layer to load it.

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-08 Thread Poison BL.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:32 AM, wrote: > Poison BL. wrote : > >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> >> wrote: >> > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: >> >> What is in your grub.conf? Have

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-08 Thread peter
Poison BL. wrote : > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> > wrote: > > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > >> What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an > >> initramfs and letting it drop you to its

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-08 Thread Poison BL.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: >> What is in your grub.conf? Have you thought about adding an >> initramfs and letting it drop you to its rescue shell so that you can >> investigate? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 07 April 2016 17:56:55 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an > > M.2 interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-07 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an M.2 > interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions > /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... > > After following the instructions

[gentoo-user] NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-07 Thread peter
Hello list, I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an M.2 interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI system, I get as far as a kernel panic. Grub