In data martedì 31 maggio 2016 22:18:27, Bill Kenworthy ha scritto: > On 31/05/16 06:43, Giampiero Gabbiani wrote: > > In data martedì 31 maggio 2016 05:55:10, Bill Kenworthy ha scritto: > >> On 30/05/16 20:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>> On Sat, 28 May 2016 14:46:02 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >>>> On 05/28/2016 09:03 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >>>>> I was just about to spring for a mid range MS surface pro 4 tablet > >>>>> when I saw a few posts about hardware problems ... MS hardware is > >>>>> usually solid (in contrast to their software! :) > >>>>> > >>>>> Are there any other similar tablets out there that are gentoo/Linux > >>>>> friendly that are worth looking at? > >>>>> > >>>>> I have been using an old Samsung android tablet and google has just > >>>>> crossed the line and creeped me out past what I can tolerate so its > >>>>> time to move on :( > >>>>> > >>>>> BillK > >>>> > >>>> Aquaris M10 > >>>> > >>>> https://store.bq.com/gl/ > >>> > >>> Have you actually run Gentoo on one of these? > >> > >> Tried to do gentoo on android but was missing some essential settings in > >> the kernel available ... and its not the most powerful beast :) I did > >> eventually build a custom cyanogenmod but in the end decided that with a > >> failing battery, it wasn't worth it :( > >> > >> The surface 4 is running gentoo but but I am running out of chickens > >> trying to get the bootloader going ... seems like grub cant see the NVMe > >> ssd the sp4 uses and rEFInd is being ... difficult :) > >> > >> EFI is like bad magic ... doesn't really work! My last efi adventure > >> was an apple air some 4 years or more ago (which eventually worked) - it > >> hasn't progressed much in that time. > >> > >> BillK > > > > On both surface Pro and Pro 3 it worked with the following partition: > > > > /dev/sda1 ef00 fat32 512MiB > > > > Grub2 was compiled with device-mapper USE flag and GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" > > > > And installed with > > > > # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot- > > directory=/boot/efi > > > > What exactly is the problem? > > > > Grub2 succeeded in installation? If yes could you give the efibootmgr > > output? > > > > Regards > > Giampiero > > Working ... well the basics (console)! > > EFI - was down to me misunderstanding the syntax for refind and then a > few other bugs/missing kernel driver etc. Booting from rEFInd directly > using the kernel EFI stub. grub2 has been removed. > > Patched the kernel for the type 4 keyboard so have the MS type 4 KB > working at the console including the mousepad (using gpm) > > WiFi (thanks to the the recent wpa_supplicant thread saving me time to > refamilise myself with this) working to WPA2 - relatively easy :) > > Next is X and the fruit :) > > BillK
Great! I never tried rEFInd ... It looks interesting ... It seems to skip a lot of grub complexity ... Could you share the config? Regards Giampiero
