On Wednesday 28 Jan 2015 18:54:17 Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... and if you have no need for multi-booting then the kernel efi stub is > > very simple to configure and still works reliably (with openrc and no > > initrd here). No need to install a separate boot manager. > > It's not just multi-booting that might need a boot manager or a boot > loader. > > Using efibootmgr is OK but you then have to go to the firmware in > order to choose to boot in single-user mode or with a non-default > kernel.
Yes, you need to drop into EFI shell to pass options to the kernel; e.g. fs0:> bzImage.efi console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda4 but for regular booting (which is 99.99% of the time for me) the EFI stub works fine so far. Undoubtedly, gummiboot, rEFInd and friends add much more flexibility and should be preferred when the user needs them. -- Regards, Mick
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