On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 11:06:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > This morning I decided to bend with the wind. I let bootctl create > those directories again, then copied the latest kernel image into > /boot/EFI/Linux/. On running bootctl install again, everything worked > as expected. All I had to do was to adjust the boot order with > efibootmgr. > > I suspect I have a hardware problem, because the UEFI BIOS boot menu > doesn't always show an entry I've just added, and it sometimes inserts > a blank entry among the real ones. > > For the record, here's the layout of /boot now: > > # tree /boot > /boot > ├── 4eec63dc92f83de25e1e2e485d7f6536 > ├── config-4.19.72-gentoo > ├── config-4.19.72-gentoo-rescue > ├── config-4.19.72-gentoo-testsys > ├── early_ucode.cpio > ├── EFI > │ ├── BOOT > │ │ └── BOOTX64.EFI > │ ├── Linux > │ │ └── bzImage-4.19.72.efi > │ ├── systemd > │ │ └── systemd-bootx64.efi > │ └── TestSys > │ └── BOOT > │ └── bootX64.efi > ├── intel-uc.img > ├── loader > │ ├── entries > │ │ ├── 08-gentoo-4.19.66-rescue.conf > │ │ ├── 09-gentoo-4.19.66-rescue.nonet.conf > │ │ ├── 30-gentoo-4.19.72.conf > │ │ ├── 32-gentoo-4.19.72.nox.conf > │ │ ├── 34-gentoo-4.19.72.nonet.conf > │ │ ├── 40-gentoo-4.19.66.conf > │ │ ├── 42-gentoo-4.19.66.nox.conf > │ │ ├── 44-gentoo-4.19.66.nonet.conf > │ │ ├── 90-testsys-4.19.72.conf > │ │ └── 92-testsys-4.19.72.nonet.conf > │ ├── loader.conf > │ └── random-seed > ├── System.map-4.19.72-gentoo > ├── System.map-4.19.72-gentoo-rescue > ├── System.map-4.19.72-gentoo-testsys > ├── vmlinuz-4.19.72-gentoo > ├── vmlinuz-4.19.72-gentoo-rescue > └── vmlinuz-4.19.72-gentoo-testsys > > 9 directories, 27 files > > Here's hoping I won't have to go through that pain again for a while...
Are you setting UEFI to boot from systemd-bootx64.efi or from the kernel image? If the former, you don't need a copy of the kernel in the ESP. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 00A: Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
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