Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Joost. On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 20:16:37 +, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On April 28, 2017 9:51:07 PM GMT+02:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >In the end, I went with grub2, and it has taken a lot of effort to get > >not very far. Grub's documentation is suboptimal. > >The state

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, April 29, 2017 1:17:11 AM CEST Daniel Frey wrote: > On 04/28/2017 12:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Mick and the whole World. > > > > # Load a linux kernel, passing the root filesystem and init process as > > parameters echo "Loading kernel..." > > echo

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:57:49 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I failed to get grub working (rather, gave up because of the lack of > docs) and went with rEFIt. info grub or https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html Not that I would advise using GRUB on a UEFI system, it's such overkill,

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Bill Kenworthy
>>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Mick > > Have you tried connecting using ssh after boot? > Also, do you have the EFI console support in your kernel? > > Not near my desktop to check which ones exactly. > > -- > Joost > Second this - check the kernel options for EFI but also add the NVME drives. I

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/28/2017 12:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Mick and the whole World. > > # Load a linux kernel, passing the root filesystem and init process as > parameters > echo "Loading kernel..." > echo "grub_platform = " $grub_platform > gfxpayload=text # For debugging.

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On April 28, 2017 9:51:07 PM GMT+02:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >Hello, Mick and the whole World. > >On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 00:00:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > >> Have a look here in case it helps: > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#RAID > >In the end, I went with grub2, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

2017-04-28 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Mick and the whole World. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 00:00:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > Have a look here in case it helps: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#RAID In the end, I went with grub2, and it has taken a lot of effort to get not very far. Grub's documentation is suboptimal.