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 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

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

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 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:

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

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
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

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. --

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. # efibootmgr

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

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

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
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

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
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

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

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 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

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 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

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
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

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 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 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 uses, it

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

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 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

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 Tom H
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

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 # efibootmgr -c -L

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

2015-01-28 Thread Tom H
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

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

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 want Grub

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 glad

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 only now,

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 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

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.