Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 01/05/13 at 09:41pm, Mike Cloaked wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < > sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > From what I have been reading in the forums of late, apparently rEFInd > > has a driver to read ext2 partitions, so can read your kernel/initramfs >

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread David Benfell
On 1/5/2013 12:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been > reading), are systems like this reliable once installed? Does the routine > pacman update process fo

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < sugar.and.scru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From what I have been reading in the forums of late, apparently rEFInd > has a driver to read ext2 partitions, so can read your kernel/initramfs > from there. > > Also, srs5694 has indicated that the git v

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 01/05/13 at 09:54pm, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been > > reading), are systems like this reliabl

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Curtis Shimamoto
On 01/05/13 at 08:23pm, Mike Cloaked wrote: > I am building a machine which has an EFI capable boot on the motherboard > together with an mSATA drive for the root and boot partitions and an SSD > for the /opt and swap partitions, and just a single arch x86_64 install > when it is built - no dual bo

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Mike Cloaked
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked > wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have > been > > reading), are systems lik

Re: [arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.

2013-01-05 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart > from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been > reading), are systems like this reliable once installed? Does the routine > pacman update pr