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dockland

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[SOLVED] Do I have a bootloader?

Kind of embarrassing question, during install i did a EFI-install with GRUB2, and a display mgr and greeter (lightdm gtk) but after ditching my desktop environment and lightdm i'm booting straight to arch linux. I uninstalled gnome, xfce and lightdm and everything related, Arch is working just great (on i3 currently)
Checked efivars via efibootmgr -v but get:

# efibootmgr -v
bash: efibootmgr: command not found

I came across this question when i was about to do a reply in thread "[Poll] Which is your current bootloader?" in the "Try this" section.

Am i simply without a bootloader? Or, is there a way of checking other than:

dmesg | grep Command
[    0.000000] Command line: initrd=\intel-ucode.img initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=PARTUUID=d0f51ed7-7848-4d1b-a52d-54a06800a469 rw quiet vga=current

Last edited by dockland (2017-07-09 18:32:50)

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have a bootloader?

Bootloader is Grub. You don't have a boot manager.
https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/2 … work-then/

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dockland

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have a bootloader?

That's it. Thank you. I do have that article bookmarked, and have read it once.
Briefly, obviously.

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have a bootloader?

I also gather you don't know that GRUB stands for GRand Unified Bootloader.

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dockland

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have a bootloader?

Trillby
True, even worse I even managed to mix up Gentoo's default bootloader with Arch's dito (name wise, that is).
I need a vacation.

Last edited by dockland (2017-07-09 19:45:15)

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have a bootloader?

I didn't know gentoo had a default boot loader.  I know arch doesn't have one.

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dockland

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Re: [SOLVED] Do I have a bootloader?

Nah, i can choose if i want, what ever i like.
But, from gentoo handbook:
"GRUB2 — Reworked version of GRUB. Gentoo's default bootloader on x86 and amd64."

E: And, of course, Arch Linux does not have a "default bootloader"

I think it's wrong in Gentoo Handbook. I'll give them a chat and ask.

Last edited by dockland (2017-07-09 21:11:06)

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