On 01/05/13 at 09:54pm, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> 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 for kernels lead to issues requiring manual intervention with EFI/GPT or it is as generally reliable as BIOS/MBR?
I recently got an MacBook with which I use EFI/GPT, and it works shockingly well.
I use gummiboot as the bootloader and partitioned my disk using gdisk.
The only gotcha worth mentioning that I can think of is that your kernel/initramfs must be installed on your EFI partition (which according to some sources should be at least 512MB, though mine is not). It is simple enough to make that work automagically by mounting your EFI partition on /boot (with an /boot/EFI subdirectory), rather than having a separate /boot partition and mounting the EFI partition on /boot/EFI.
HTH,
Tom
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 version of rEFInd now has a driver to read ext4 as well. -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@gmail.com