Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Sunday, 28 April 2024 13:57:23 BST Dale wrote: >> >>> I just got to figure out how to make it so I can login as root via ssh >>> again. I set PermitRootLogin to yes in ssh config but still refuses. I >>> did it on my NAS box but can't recall what else I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 28 April 2024 13:57:23 BST Dale wrote: > >> I just got to figure out how to make it so I can login as root via ssh >> again. I set PermitRootLogin to yes in ssh config but still refuses. I >> did it on my NAS box but can't recall what else I had to do. > Just checking

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On Sunday, 28 April 2024 13:57:23 BST Dale wrote: > I just got to figure out how to make it so I can login as root via ssh > again. I set PermitRootLogin to yes in ssh config but still refuses. I > did it on my NAS box but can't recall what else I had to do. Just checking the obvious, did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

Mickaël Bucas wrote: > Hi > > Le sam. 27 avr. 2024 à 18:53, Dale a écrit : >> Howdy, >> >> I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. > I was wondering how old this box could be and if it had a BIOS with > UEFI and GPT. > > I didn't find a precise date for BIOS, but Wikipedia[1] shows that the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On Sunday, 28 April 2024 06:24:09 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:53:25 BST Dale wrote: [snip ...] > >> I did some research but still find myself in some muddy > >> waters. My take on some things I've read, I need a boot partition, not > >> to be confused with

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

Hi Le sam. 27 avr. 2024 à 18:53, Dale a écrit : > Howdy, > > I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. I was wondering how old this box could be and if it had a BIOS with UEFI and GPT. I didn't find a precise date for BIOS, but Wikipedia[1] shows that the first version of Windows for x64 that

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:53:25 BST Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. To be consistent I like to >> use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my drives, >> regardless of size. > GPT is the partition table structure, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On 27/04/2024 17:53, Dale wrote: Howdy, I'm installing Gentoo on another old box.  To be consistent I like to use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my drives, regardless of size.  Thing is, Grub works differently with GPT than it does with the old DOS or whatever it is called,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:53:25 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. To be consistent I like to > use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my drives, > regardless of size. GPT is the partition table structure, which is more advanced than the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 9:53 AM Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. To be consistent I like to > use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my drives, > regardless of size. Thing is, Grub works differently with GPT than it > does with the old DOS or

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:53:25 -0500 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm installing Gentoo on another old box.  To be consistent I like to > use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my drives, > regardless of size.  Thing is, Grub works differently with GPT than it > does with the old DOS

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory [RESOLVED]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 15:24, n952162 wrote: > Well, I discovered that this works: > > grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda > > Although that is an UNDOCUMENTED option! It's dropped from the --help menu. > > I found it in the --help on an old system. > > Amazing how these things just

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory [RESOLVED]

On 7/27/22 14:33, n952162 wrote: Hello all, has the default been changed from BIOS to EFI? Do I have to, e.g. set the platform USE flag and reinstall the humongous grub package or is there an option I can pass to grub-install? Well, I discovered that this works: *grub-install

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory

On 7/27/22 14:33, n952162 wrote: Hello all, has the default been changed from BIOS to EFI? Do I have to, e.g. set the platform USE flag and reinstall the humongous grub package or is there an option I can pass to grub-install? I see I have this: CONFIG_EFI=y CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

Re: [gentoo-user] grub 0.97-r18 fails sanity check, stage2 larger than 1MB

Am Freitag, 21. Januar 2022, 16:46:17 CET schrieb Skippy: > I think emerge wants to rebuild grub because of a changed USE flag. > > [ebuild R] sys-boot/grub-0.97-r18::Skippy USE="ncurses > -custom-cflags -netboot -static" KERNEL="(-linux%*)" 0 KiB > > When doing so it fails. > > *

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.

On 12/13/2020 08:28 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/13/2020 08:15 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I removed "vfat" boot partition and created/change it to ext2 >> >> But now when i try to install grub: >> >> grub-install /dev/nvme0n1p2 Simple mistake it should be: grub-install

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.

On 12/13/2020 08:15 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I removed "vfat" boot partition and created/change it to ext2 > > But now when i try to install grub: > > grub-install /dev/nvme0n1p2 > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:04:20 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > In grub, does chainloading an LVM virtual partition work the same as > chainloading a "real" partition? I suspect not as GRUB will be reading the menu files and GRUB doesn't read from LVM volumes. -- Neil Bothwick "A hundred

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent....

Got the motherboard running, the motherboard was IGNORING the "UEFI only" BIOS setting, it was attempting to boot my system in BIOS mode, I found that I had to efibootmgr and tell the stupid BIOS what is what... why the BIOS doesn't scan the first two directories under /EFI for *.efi and list

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent....

On Wednesday, 1 July 2020 09:15:10 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 01:40:54 + (UTC), Alan Grimes wrote: > > I RMA'd my normal mobo as previously discussed. > > I went to grab my previous motherboard and it turns out that it had > > actually released a goodly chunk of it's Magic

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent....

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 01:40:54 + (UTC), Alan Grimes wrote: > I RMA'd my normal mobo as previously discussed.  > I went to grab my previous motherboard and it turns out that it had > actually released a goodly chunk of it's Magic Smoke (tm) while I > hadn't been looking.  So I went down to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

On Friday, 23 March 2018 22:03:45 GMT mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > I appreciate the pointers. however it also said that it couldn't embed > grub. I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition You can install grub in the MBR of a disk, or in the boot record of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

sorry, that should be "I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition and/or the fact that a different (64b vs 32b) grub, i.e. different versions of grub and likely different revisions." mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) -- God bless the rich, the greedy and the corrupt

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

I appreciate the pointers.  however it also said that it couldn't embed grub.  I believer my error was installing it to the boot partition and/or the fact that a different (64b vs 32b).  unfortunately i did mess it up enough that grub went to the rescue/command line when i tried to reboot. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub problems on old proliant

On Thursday, 22 March 2018 22:57:31 GMT mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > When I run "grub-install/dev/boot" (following the manual) I i get the error > "grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB for /dev/boot. You have typed no space between the command 'grub-install' and the device.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 2017-12-07 15:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:04:08 GMT Kai Peter wrote: On 2017-12-06 13:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:12:21 GMT Mick wrote: >> On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > Sys-boot/grub-0.97-r17 compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/07/2017 03:22:30 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Long-standing readers may remember that I have reasons for avoiding grub-2. I still think it's a monstrosity and I'd much prefer never to have to wrestle with it again. On the other hand, I suppose I could have another go at writing my own

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:04:08 GMT Kai Peter wrote: > On 2017-12-06 13:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:12:21 GMT Mick wrote: > >> On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > Sys-boot/grub-0.97-r17 compiled and installed all right, as a package, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 2017-12-06 13:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:12:21 GMT Mick wrote: On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: > > I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per > > '2017-11-30-new-17- > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:12:21 GMT Mick wrote: > On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: > > > I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per > > > '2017-11-30-new-17- > > > > > > profiles' news item: > > > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 02:20:14 GMT wabe wrote: > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: > > > > On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > >> On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 10:21:49 GMT Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Quite inexplicable ... > > > > My kernel is 7.1M, System.map 3.4M and config is 114K. I usually leave a > > total of three kernels and associated files in my ext2 46M /boot partition > > and they all used to fit

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I was genuinely annoyed with grub2 due to its update and massive config > files, so I never upgraded to it. I usually had multiple kernel versions and > grub2 helpfully labeled them all "Linux" so I couldn't tell them

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

Mick wrote: > > Quite inexplicable ... > > My kernel is 7.1M, System.map 3.4M and config is 114K. I usually leave a > total of three kernels and associated files in my ext2 46M /boot partition > and > they all used to fit in there. I tried to install grub-0.97-r16 on this > system a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 03:39:42 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > I figured out you can still write your own grub2 files, and it wasn't > that difficult, other than its numbering is different now (no base-0 > partitions... argh.) How a developer can number disks from 0 and partitions from 1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 02:20:14 GMT wabe wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: > > > On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >> On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: > > >>> I'm getting this error after I changed my

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/04/17 18:15, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/04/2017 09:13 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: Well, it copies from /usr/share/grub and /lib/grub to /boot/grub, and the sum of those directories are 270M without any kernels, etc installed. I guess I'm going to have to tarball everything up, repartition,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

Daniel Frey wrote: > On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: > > On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: > >>> I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per > >>> '2017-11-30-new-17- > >>> profiles' news

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/04/2017 09:13 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > Well, it copies from /usr/share/grub and /lib/grub to /boot/grub, and > the sum of those directories are 270M without any kernels, etc > installed. I guess I'm going to have to tarball everything up, > repartition, and untar it. > > I guess I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/04/17 17:54, Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per '2017-11-30-new-17- profiles' news item: Compiling source in

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per '2017-11-30-new-17- profiles' news item: Compiling source in

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: > > I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per > > '2017-11-30-new-17- > > profiles' news item: > > >>> Compiling source in /data/tmp_var/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16/work/ > >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: > I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per > '2017-11-30-new-17- > profiles' news item: > >>> Compiling source in /data/tmp_var/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16/work/ [...] > However, sys-boot/grub-0.97-r17 installed fine once

Re: [gentoo-user] grub error I've never seen in many installs

On 10 July 2017 at 22:06, Harry Putnam wrote: > grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check > your device.map. > > Where might I find `device.map'... it isn't part of grub2. At least > grep

Re: [gentoo-user] grub:2 first experience with it

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:55:30 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Ran install-grub > (completed successfully) > > Attempted to run update-grub, but that script was nowhere to be found. > > qlist grub:2 |grep update shows its not part of grub:2 pkg. > > Just to make sure I re-installed grub:2 once

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 missing manifest

On 09/12/2015 11:12, Mick wrote: Is this a matter of rinse and repeat later in the day, or shall I be filing a bug report? = These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 missing manifest

On Wednesday 09 Dec 2015 11:03:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 09/12/2015 11:12, Mick wrote: > > Is this a matter of rinse and repeat later in the day, or shall I be > > filing a bug report? > > > > = > > These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 missing manifest

On Wednesday 09 Dec 2015 12:03:02 Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 09 Dec 2015 11:03:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 09/12/2015 11:12, Mick wrote: > > > Is this a matter of rinse and repeat later in the day, or shall I be > > > filing a bug report? > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote: Hello:: Background:: I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote: Hello:: Background:: I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

On 16-Jul-15 21:34, James wrote: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local. /dev/sda3

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:34:18 + (UTC), James wrote: Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. Nothing, I installed r7 on June 26th and the system just

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

On Wednesday 28 Jan 2015 18:54:17 Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 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

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

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

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

-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

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:

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

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 20:47, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now

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

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. --

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

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. # efibootmgr

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

-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

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

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at 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

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

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at 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

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

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

On 28.01.2015 20:47, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at 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

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

On 28.01.2015 22:32, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at 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

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at 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

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

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

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

-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 uses, it

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

-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

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

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

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at 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

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

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

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 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

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

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 # efibootmgr -c -L

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

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at 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 to

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

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

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

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 want Grub

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

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 glad

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

-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 only now,

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

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

-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 motherboard

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

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 isn't working on SSD

On 29/06/14 20:17, João Matos wrote: Dear list, After finishing the configuration, my gentoo was working very well. So, the last step was to create a stage4, and replace my old hd. I did it, installed grub lecacy in chroot. No error reported during the installation. My /boot isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB isn't working on SSD

On 29/06/2014 14:17, João Matos wrote: Dear list, After finishing the configuration, my gentoo was working very well. So, the last step was to create a stage4, and replace my old hd. I did it, installed grub lecacy in chroot. No error reported during the installation. My /boot isn't a

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB isn't working on SSD

2014-06-29 10:48 GMT-03:00 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 29/06/2014 14:17, João Matos wrote: Dear list, After finishing the configuration, my gentoo was working very well. So, the last step was to create a stage4, and replace my old hd. I did it, installed grub lecacy

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB isn't working on SSD

On Sonntag, 29. Juni 2014, 13:02:12 João Matos wrote: 2014-06-29 10:48 GMT-03:00 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 29/06/2014 14:17, João Matos wrote: Dear list, After finishing the configuration, my gentoo was working very well. So, the last step was to create a stage4,

Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB isn't working on SSD

On 29/06/2014 18:02, João Matos wrote: 2014-06-29 10:48 GMT-03:00 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 29/06/2014 14:17, João Matos wrote: Dear list, After finishing the configuration, my gentoo was working very well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Config Questions

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:01:56 +0800 Jackie jiangjun12...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:53:43 +0800，Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com 写道: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:07:07 +0800 Jackie jiangjun12...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:56 +0800，Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com 写道:

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Config Questions

在 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:53:43 +0800，Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com 写道: On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:07:07 +0800 Jackie jiangjun12...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:56 +0800，Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com 写道: I followed a method of using UUID's in grub from

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Config Questions

在 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:56 +0800，Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com 写道: I followed a method of using UUID's in grub from http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/481167-mounting-root-partition-uuid-no-initrd-needed.html and am getting an error 11 message My grub Conf title FlashGen2

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Config Questions

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:07:07 +0800 Jackie jiangjun12...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:56 +0800，Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com 写道: I followed a method of using UUID's in grub from http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/481167-mounting-root-partition-uuid-no-initrd-needed.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub Config Questions

On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:07:07 +0800 Jackie jiangjun12...@gmail.com wrote: 在 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:58:56 +0800，Fast Turtle ftur...@gmail.com 写道: I followed a method of using UUID's in grub from http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/481167-mounting-root-partition-uuid-no-initrd-needed.html

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:29:26PM +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you say how? Remove or comment out any splashimage directives from the config file. *** Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

On 2012-02-14 6:19 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: If you're interested, I can detail a history for you, and explain why GRUB 1 was discontinued and why the whole thing was restructured in detail. I can't right now, as I am about to get on a conference call, but I can certainly do so

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:19:47 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even some of what is happening) or write my own scripts,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-02-14 6:19 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: If you're interested, I can detail a history for you, and explain why GRUB 1 was discontinued and why the whole thing was restructured in detail.  I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

On 02/15/2012 07:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even some of what is happening) or write my own scripts, etc... Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

On 2012-02-15 9:37 AM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/15/2012 07:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even some of

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:47:54 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Understood, and thanks Mike, I really look forward to reading whatever you can provide. I realize that I'm gonna have to take this plunge eventually, and would rather not wait until I'm forced to... That was my feeling a year or so ago. I

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