On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> 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
Thanks Tom - that is useful - I am doing as much reading as possible and also found a link this evening which has useful info: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html and http://pcavdisor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/beginners-guide-to-installing-archli... though I will read more before making a final decision.... I guess uefi is still very new and only a minority of users have got to grips with it yet - so I still feel a little twitchy about making it my primary boot mechanism! -- mike c