Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/08/13 at 09:38am, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann > wrote: > > > > > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > > > > To be honest, I had

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 01/08/13 at 09:38am, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > > > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside > > > installation, there is very few noticeable

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 10:55:46 Mike Cloaked wrote: > > If I can boot a freedos bootable usbkey under uefi and do the firmware > > update flash that way it would be great! I will try that as it will be > > around the first thing I need to

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 10:55:46 Mike Cloaked wrote: > If I can boot a freedos bootable usbkey under uefi and do the firmware > update flash that way it would be great! I will try that as it will be > around the first thing I need to do before partitioning the drives and then > installing arch

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 09:38:58 Mike Cloaked wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann > wrote: > > > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > > > > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installatio

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 09:38:58 Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > > > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside > > > installation, there is very few notic

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside > > installation, there is very few noticeable difference between BIOS and > > UEFI. I have insisted

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 07 Jan 2013 18:46:14 LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT wrote: > To be honest, I had 0 problem with installation and UEFI usage. Beside > installation, there is very few noticeable difference between BIOS and > UEFI. I have insisted to use it just because I had a MB capable of UEFI. > > If you wa

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-07 Thread LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT
> -Original Message- > From: arch-general [mailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf > Of Mike Cloaked > Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 3:24 PM > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > Subject: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations nee

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 20:23:39 Mike Cloaked wrote: > I am building a machine which has an EFI capable boot on the motherboard > together with an mSATA drive for the root and boot partitions and an SSD > for the /opt and swap partitions, and just a single arch x86_64 install > when it is built - n

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-07 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:36 PM, kristof wrote: > On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:23:39 -0800, Mike Cloaked > wrote: > >> Thanks for any replies (and useful links) >> > > What bootloader and bootmanager are you going to be using? I'm currently > using gummiboot to boot an efistub kernel on my ESP, and as

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-06 Thread kristof
On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:23:39 -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote: Thanks for any replies (and useful links) What bootloader and bootmanager are you going to be using? I'm currently using gummiboot to boot an efistub kernel on my ESP, and as one user mentioned earlier for that setup to work, I need

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-06 Thread archlinux
On 05/01/13 20:23, Mike Cloaked wrote: I am building a machine which has an EFI capable boot on the motherboard together with an mSATA drive for the root and boot partitions and an SSD for the /opt and swap partitions, and just a single arch x86_64 install when it is built - no dual booting to ot

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-06 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Corrado Primier wrote: > 2013/1/5 Mike Cloaked > > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? > > > > I've got a 2008 Macbook (currently my primary mobile system) running. > After the initial learning curve (it's quite more complex than t

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 01/05/13 at 09:41pm, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < > sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > From what I have been reading in the forums of late, apparently rEFInd > > has a driver to read ext2 partitions, so can read your kernel/initramfs >

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread David Benfell
On 1/5/2013 12:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been > reading), are systems like this reliable once installed? Does the routine > pacman update process fo

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From what I have been reading in the forums of late, apparently rEFInd > has a driver to read ext2 partitions, so can read your kernel/initramfs > from there. > > Also, srs5694 has indicated that the git v

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 01/05/13 at 09:54pm, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been > > reading), are systems like this reliabl

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 01/05/13 at 08:23pm, Mike Cloaked wrote: > I am building a machine which has an EFI capable boot on the motherboard > together with an mSATA drive for the root and boot partitions and an SSD > for the /opt and swap partitions, and just a single arch x86_64 install > when it is built - no dual bo

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked > wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have > been > > reading), are systems lik

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been > reading), are systems like this reliable once installed? Does the routine > pacman update pr