Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-08 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:44 PM, David Benfell wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > So far, my attempt to install Arch Linux on a UEFI system is a total > facepalm moment. The problem is in booting post-install. > > So, first, does anyone have actual--and

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-03 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Mika Fischer wrote: > itself. Arch would still need to > change where the kernels are installed to prevent clobbering the root > of the ESP, for instance by installing somewhere in /usr and then > calling this tool in post_install() to install the kernel to the > pr

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-03 Thread Mika Fischer
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Mika Fischer wrote: > OK, I found this: > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/kernel-install.html > > But this does not really help by itself. Arch would still need to > change where the kernels are installed to prevent clobbering the root > of the ESP,

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-03 Thread Mika Fischer
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: >>> The systemd guys are cooking up a kernel-install tool which installs >>> the kernels into an installation-specific subdirectory in /boot (based >>> on machine-id) and automatically writes loader entries for them. I >>> hope we can make use o

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-03 Thread Jan Steffens
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mika Fischer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: >> The systemd guys are cooking up a kernel-install tool which installs >> the kernels into an installation-specific subdirectory in /boot (based >> on machine-id) and automatically writes l

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-03 Thread Mika Fischer
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: > The systemd guys are cooking up a kernel-install tool which installs > the kernels into an installation-specific subdirectory in /boot (based > on machine-id) and automatically writes loader entries for them. I > hope we can make use of this in

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-03 Thread Maxime GAUDUIN
Oh thx for the link! I didn't bother because I had already installed refind last week, plus previous isos booted fine without further tweaking. Gummiboot started acting funny recently. -- Maxime On Mar 3, 2013 11:32 AM, "Mike Cloaked" wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Maxime Gauduin wrot

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-03 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Maxime Gauduin wrote: > > I have been succesfully using a GRUB2 based UEFI system for the past > year, but it died on me a week ago. Didn't want to load any kernel > anymore... > I switched to refind and it works beautiffuly, just follow the wiki > here: https://wi

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread Jan Steffens
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:30 AM, David Benfell wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/02/2013 03:31 AM, Mika Fischer wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: >>> With the >>> ESP at /boot, pacman automatically installs the kernels where they >>>

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2013 03:31 AM, Mika Fischer wrote: > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: >> With the >> ESP at /boot, pacman automatically installs the kernels where they >> need to be, and no ugly copying hacks are necessary. > > Do you me

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread Mika Fischer
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > With the > ESP at /boot, pacman automatically installs the kernels where they > need to be, and no ugly copying hacks are necessary. Do you mean something other than "/boot/vmlinuz-linux" by "where they need to be"? Because that location is n

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread Mika Fischer
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:44 AM, David Benfell wrote: > So, first, does anyone have actual--and successful--experience > installing Arch on a UEFI system? Yes, I'm using it without major problems for months now. > GummiBoot says it can't find /vmlinuz-linux. I tried modifying the > configuration

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread archlinux
On 02/03/13 06:44, David Benfell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, So far, my attempt to install Arch Linux on a UEFI system is a total facepalm moment. The problem is in booting post-install. So, first, does anyone have actual--and successful--experience installing

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread Maxime Gauduin
On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 22:44 -0800, David Benfell wrote: > Hi all, > > So far, my attempt to install Arch Linux on a UEFI system is a total > facepalm moment. The problem is in booting post-install. > > So, first, does anyone have actual--and successful--experience > installing Arch on a UEFI syst

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:26 AM, David Benfell wrote: > On 03/02/2013 10:32 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > > which works really beautifully and needs no manual intervention when new > > kernels arrive. However it did take me some time with a lot of help from > > Rod Smith to get it all set up corre

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
On 03/02/2013 10:32 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > which works really beautifully and needs no manual intervention when new > kernels arrive. However it did take me some time with a lot of help from > Rod Smith to get it all set up correctly. > > Basic steps were: > 1) Format disks with GPT instead o

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread David Benfell
On 03/02/2013 11:13 AM, Jan Steffens wrote: Make sure the EFI System Partition is mounted at /boot. Gummiboot expects this: The /vmlinuz-linux path is relative to the ESP. With the ESP at /boot, pacman automatically installs the kernels where they need to be, and no ugly copying hacks are necessa

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread Jan Steffens
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 7:44 AM, David Benfell wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > So far, my attempt to install Arch Linux on a UEFI system is a total > facepalm moment. The problem is in booting post-install. > > So, first, does anyone have actual--and succe

Re: [arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-02 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:44 AM, David Benfell wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > So far, my attempt to install Arch Linux on a UEFI system is a total > facepalm moment. The problem is in booting post-install. > > So, first, does anyone have actual--and succe

[arch-general] UEFI madness

2013-03-01 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, So far, my attempt to install Arch Linux on a UEFI system is a total facepalm moment. The problem is in booting post-install. So, first, does anyone have actual--and successful--experience installing Arch on a UEFI system? Yes, I went to the