Re: [gentoo-user] switching from "refine" to "grub"

2020-12-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 01:57:40 -0700, Dan Egli wrote: > What complexity? GRUB2 is hugely complex as it tries to be everything to everyone. That's not a bad thing in itself, but EFI can use a far more minimal setup. > I have a couple EFI machines booting via Grub, and > they work great. I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] switching from "refine" to "grub"

2020-12-12 Thread Dan Egli
What complexity? I have a couple EFI machines booting via Grub, and they work great. I just had to ensure the correct GRUB_TARGET in make.conf and then after I had my partitions setup and formatted, I just did grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/EFI and it went smooth as

Re: [gentoo-user] switching from "refine" to "grub"

2020-12-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 07:48:06 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I use refine as boot loader but it is giving me a problems. > How to switch back to grub 2 > And remove any refine files from /boot I take it you mean refind? It may well be easier to solve the problem with refind rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] switching from "refine" to "grub"

2020-12-11 Thread Dan Egli
I can not say for certain, but I imagine it would be something like this: emerge -c refine rm  -rf  rm -rf /boot/refine GRUB_TARGET="x86_64-efi" emerge grub grub-install --efi-directory= --target=x86_64-efi grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Of course you really should put the GRUB_TARGET

[gentoo-user] switching from "refine" to "grub"

2020-12-11 Thread thelma
I use refine as boot loader but it is giving me a problems. How to switch back to grub 2 And remove any refine files from /boot