[arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

[Curtis Shimamoto]

On 01/05/13 at 09:54pm, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked at 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.

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Curtis Shimamoto
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