[arch-general] Gummiboot and EFISTUB booting irregularities

[Bigby James]

On 07/10, Mike Cloaked wrote:
> 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
> 

Ah, GRUB can boot UEFI directly. My mistake. ;)

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