Re: [gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-02 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 02/07/2020 06:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > But then, > # bootctl set-default 30-gentoo-5.7.7.conf > Failed to update EFI variable: Invalid argument Probably the kernel is blocking write access to EFI. This is on purpose for safety as you can damage your firmware quite easily. systemd-boot and ot

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-07-02 Thread james
On 6/21/20 6:31 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: -Original Message- From: james Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: Hello, I might need to build and run an old 3.x

[gentoo-user] EFI booting problem - understanding it

2020-07-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Morning all, I'm trying to set the default boot entry via bootctl or efibootmgr. I know I can set it directly by pressing D at the boot selection screen, and the system does boot properly; I just want to understand the setup a bit better. I don't have the rest of systemd: this is an openrc box. #