On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> > 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 for kernels lead to issues requiring manual > > intervention with EFI/GPT or it is as generally reliable as BIOS/MBR? > > I recently got an MacBook with which I use EFI/GPT, and it works > shockingly well. > > I use gummiboot as the bootloader and partitioned my disk using gdisk. > > The only gotcha worth mentioning that I can think of is that your > kernel/initramfs must > be installed on your EFI partition (which according to some sources > should be at least 512MB, > though mine is not). It is simple enough to make that work > automagically by mounting > your EFI partition on /boot (with an /boot/EFI subdirectory), rather > than having a separate > /boot partition and mounting the EFI partition on /boot/EFI. > > HTH, > > Tom > Thanks Tom - that is useful - I am doing as much reading as possible and also found a link this evening which has useful info: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/index.html and http://pcavdisor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/beginners-guide-to-installing-archlinux.html though I will read more before making a final decision.... I guess uefi is still very new and only a minority of users have got to grips with it yet - so I still feel a little twitchy about making it my primary boot mechanism! -- mike c
