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#1 2014-06-22 02:23:07
- Arm-the-Homeless
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[UEFI] Switching from GRUB to Gummiboot
Hey everyone,
When I first installed Arch on my new computer, I used GRUB just because of its relative ease at the time and my familiarity with it, but I'd now like to switch to using gummiboot.
My ESP partition (/dev/sda1) is mounted as /boot/efi in /etc/fstab, so I'm assuming I'd need to switch that to just /boot.
I'm assuming the process should go something like this?:
* mv /boot/grub /boot/efi/grub.bak
* mv /boot/initram* /boot/efi
* mv /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/efi
* umount /dev/sda1
* rmdir /boot/efi
* mount /dev/sda1 /boot
* pacman -S gummiboot
* gummiboot install
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#2 2014-06-22 03:38:21
- Buddlespit
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Re: [UEFI] Switching from GRUB to Gummiboot
Hey everyone,
When I first installed Arch on my new computer, I used GRUB just because of its relative ease at the time and my familiarity with it, but I'd now like to switch to using gummiboot.
My ESP partition (/dev/sda1) is mounted as /boot/efi in /etc/fstab, so I'm assuming I'd need to switch that to just /boot.
I'm assuming the process should go something like this?:
* mv /boot/grub /boot/efi/grub.bak
* mv /boot/initram* /boot/efi
* mv /boot/vmlinuz-linux /boot/efi
* umount /dev/sda1
* rmdir /boot/efi
* mount /dev/sda1 /boot
* pacman -S gummiboot
* gummiboot install
I think you're going to move things to /boot/efi, then delete it.
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#3 2014-06-22 10:23:46
- wirr
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Re: [UEFI] Switching from GRUB to Gummiboot
Hi
Why do you want to backup your grub stuff on the boot partition? You can put it somewhere else and start with an empty boot.
You want an archlinux live system at hand in case you reboot too early.
@Buddlespit rmdir cannot delete files.
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#4 2014-06-22 11:55:22
- Buddlespit
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Re: [UEFI] Switching from GRUB to Gummiboot
@wirr thnx, I wasn't sure.
Just out of curiosity, if you've already set your $ESP to be /boot, why do you want to change it to /boot/efi? Gummiboot actually works right out of the box on /boot. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … #Gummiboot
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#5 2014-06-22 19:30:27
- Arm-the-Homeless
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Re: [UEFI] Switching from GRUB to Gummiboot
My ESP is set as /boot/efi.
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