I found out the existing system had installed with bios and not gpt. When I mostly got the gentoo install done I went the gpt path and that set up complications. Using gdisk to put gpt on the drives destroyed both the gentoo system and the original system. Reinstallation of the original system left me with a partition that had a corrupted gpt on it. After going through new email I will have gdisk repair that partition then reboot and see if the original system continues to work or if clearing that corruption also erased the original system.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 27 May 2024, Jack wrote: > On 2024.05.26 07:11, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >I have tried a couple different things so linux-firmware and other > >packages can find the boot location and none of them have worked. > >I'm going with openrc and efi and gpt. > >originally I made an efi partition and mounted it mount /dev/sda1 > >/mnt/gentoo/efi once the efi directory had been created. > >later I made /mnt/boot/efi and mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi > >I even named /dev/sda1 /boot in parted on existing system. > >Still linux-firmware continues putting everything in /mnt/gentoo/boot. > Try grepping for "/mnt/gentoo/boot" in /etc to see if that path is stuck in > some config file. > >
