Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 2 October 2019 10:04:33 BST Mick wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 22:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: > OK, 'bootctl --help' and 'man bootctl' ought to show if the installed > version comes with the full list of options or not. Neither of them says what should happen if an option is not sup

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-02 Thread Mick
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 22:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:47:25 BST Mick wrote: > > > As I understand it this ID must be the ID bootctl itself reports. > > However, earlier bootctl versions do not have this set-default ID > > subcommand. If you run bootctl with no argum

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:47:25 BST Mick wrote: > As I understand it this ID must be the ID bootctl itself reports. > However, earlier bootctl versions do not have this set-default ID > subcommand. If you run bootctl with no arguments does it show up? No, it behaves the same as 'bootctl stat

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Mick
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 16:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:32:27 BST Mick wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 13:18, Mick wrote: > > > When using Secure Boot the UEFI firmware check the binaries to be > > > loaded have been signed by Microsoft. The 'SHA256 verified' messag

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:32:27 BST Mick wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 13:18, Mick wrote: > > When using Secure Boot the UEFI firmware check the binaries to be > > loaded have been signed by Microsoft. The 'SHA256 verified' message > > indicates the systemd-boot binary is signed using a key

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Mick
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 13:18, Mick wrote: > When using Secure Boot the UEFI firmware check the binaries to be > loaded have been signed by Microsoft. The 'SHA256 verified' message > indicates the systemd-boot binary is signed using a key which is > ultimately signed by Microsoft and is contained

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Mick
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 12:01, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 10:47:59 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:05:23 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Are you setting UEFI to boot from systemd-bootx64.efi or from the > > > > kernel image? If the former, you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 10:47:59 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:05:23 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I could

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:05:23 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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. > > I could run some tests to find out, but after throwing so much time and > effo

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 30 September 2019 21:01:28 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. I could run some tests to find out, but after throwing so much time and effort into re

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-09-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-09-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 09:50:44 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Right. After spending most of the last 10 days and some nights wrestling > with the beast, I've got it fixed at last. Except that I was wrong: I hadn't fixed it. I've just spent another two days with an unbootable system finding