Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-31 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2015 18:54:17 Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Mick wrote: > > ... and if you have no need for multi-booting then the kernel efi stub is > > very simple to configure and still works reliably (with openrc and no > > initrd here). No need to install a separate boot

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 23:51, Tom H wrote: > Why two EFIs? > > One of them's unnecessary but if you want to have both, you have to > have them both in the efibootmgr invocation. I don't know why. What I did: cd /boot rm -fr * gummiboot install grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > I rm`ed the ESP and started over. > > gummiboot boots fine again. > > I added some entries to /etc/grub.d/40_custom > (some pointers to isos etc) > > and ran > > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/grub_uefi/grub.cfg > > When I chose gru

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:55, Tom H wrote: > You need a 'grub.cfg' in '/boot/efi/EFI/grub_uefi'. > > I've deleted your email with the 'tree' output. I'm going to have to > look it up in the archives because you shouldn't have 'efi' in your > path if the ESP mountpoint is '/boot'. forget the old mail. I

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.01.2015 21:36, Tom H wrote: >>> My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was >>> removed from UEFI. >> >> But IIRC the 'tree' output that you'd posted, you shouldn't have the >> leading '\EFI'. > > the "

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > thanks, I will go through this asap (hopefully tomorrow). > Just in case someone else is motivated right now ;-) > > -> mine (with definitely too much grub-content in there) should I go for it and format the ESP ... remount and re-install both g

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:32, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > >>> My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was >>> removed from UEFI. >> >> tried your command and rebooted, worked,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 22:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Which could be because Grub can't find it's files. It installed > them in /boot/EFI/GRUB2 here. > > % ls -1 /boot/EFI/**/*.efi /boot/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi > /boot/EFI/GRUB2/grubx64.efi /boot/EFI/GRUB2/x86_6

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was >> removed from UEFI. > > tried your command and rebooted, worked, thanks! You're welcome. > Would you mind s

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:50:19 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > To answer this and your previous question. I already had a 1 GB > > ESP mounted at /boot. Grub's files live in /boot/EFI/GRUB2. > > hmm. No luck here so far with chosing "grub_uefi". > It skips to gummiboot somehow. > > > # e

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 21:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:34:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Would you mind sharing the tree of your /boot ... ? I tried >> booting grub and it didn't work yet. > > To answer this and your previous

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:34:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Would you mind sharing the tree of your /boot ... ? > I tried booting grub and it didn't work yet. To answer this and your previous question. I already had a 1 GB ESP mounted at /boot. Grub's files live in /boot/EFI/GRUB2. -- Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.01.2015 20:47, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > So now "Linux Boot

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 21:36, Tom H wrote: >> My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was >> removed from UEFI. > > But IIRC the 'tree' output that you'd posted, you shouldn't have the > leading '\EFI'. the "EFI" is under /boot/efi from my trial and error today -> # ls -l /boo

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was > removed from UEFI. tried your command and rebooted, worked, thanks! I now have: # efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0008 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: 0008,,0001,0002,0003,0004,00

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 20:47, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> So now "Linux Boot Manager" is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) >>> >>> And for the r

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> >>> So now "Linux Boot Manager" is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) >> >> And for the records: >> >> renaming "Linux Boot Manager

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> So now "Linux Boot Manager" is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) > > And for the records: > > renaming "Linux Boot Manager" to "gummiboot" was done by: > > # efibootmgr -b -B > > # efi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Mick wrote: > > ... and if you have no need for multi-booting then the kernel efi stub is very > simple to configure and still works reliably (with openrc and no initrd here). > No need to install a separate boot manager. It's not just multi-booting that might nee

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > So now "Linux Boot Manager" is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the records: renaming "Linux Boot Manager" to "gummiboot" was done by: # efibootmgr -b -B # efibootmgr -c -L "gummiboot" nice!

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:38, Tom H wrote: > Try to add '--efi-directory=/boot' to your grub-install invocation > although I wonder whether grub-mkconfig will find your kernels and > initramfs's if they aren't in the root of '/boot'. Thanks. Got it already -> # rm /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-type0-*

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.01.2015 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever ke

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This worked now : # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi cleaning up the entries ... I get # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi Installing for x86_64-efi platform. efibootmgr: Could not set variable B

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the >>> default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your >>> motherboard

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 27 January 2015 23:35:15 Neil Bothwick wrote: > The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to > eat. ...while gassing us with methane :-) -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the default > > boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your motherboard > > uses, it would have been nice if UEFI had standardised that too) > > when booting if you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 00:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> afaik you could chainload grub from gummiboot to do that . ? >> ;) > > No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the default > boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your motherboar

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:54:07 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I switched to Gummiboot a while ago, after Canek mentioned it I > > think, and I am glad I did. I still keep GRUB around because > > Gummiboot cannot boot from an ISO image so Grub stays for my > > sysresccd emergency boot option.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27.01.2015 23:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:31:21 +, Mick wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 21:21:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>> Just wanted to share that I switched from booting via grub2 to >>> gummiboot ... UEFI onl

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:31:21 +, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 21:21:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Just wanted to share that I switched from booting via grub2 to > > gummiboot ... UEFI only now, sure. I switched to Gummiboot a while ago, after Canek mentioned it I think, and I am g

Re: [gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 21:21:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Just wanted to share that I switched from booting via grub2 to gummiboot > ... UEFI only now, sure. > > Back then it was quite a hassle to get my grub2-setup working, back then > I had software raid and LVM and stuff ... today with my b

[gentoo-user] grub -> gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Just wanted to share that I switched from booting via grub2 to gummiboot ... UEFI only now, sure. Back then it was quite a hassle to get my grub2-setup working, back then I had software raid and LVM and stuff ... today with my btrfs-only installations it was a very quick learning process. Just o