[arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

[Mike Cloaked]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Bigby James <bigby.james at crepcran.com>
wrote:

> On 07/10, Murari wrote:
> > Thanks! It's nice (or maybe not...) to know that this is a problem with
> > only the EFI stub loader. I do have a standalone grub entry which I
> haven't
> > used in ages. I guess I will just add that to the gummiboot menu as a
> > fallback and wait for the next kernel update.
> >
>
> If that's your backup plan, just remember that you'll need a tiny BIOS GRUB
> parititon[1] on the disk to get GRUB to boot from a GUID partition table in
> legacy mode.
>
> [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Preliminary_requirements
>
>
There is no need to do that.  I don't have any bios grub partition and
there is no need to run grub in legacy mode when using it as a backup for
uefi efi stub boot. You can do it as a grub standalone boot -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#GRUB_Standalone



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mike c