On 01/05/13 at 09:54pm, Tom Gundersen 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 >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 version of rEFInd now has a driver to read ext4 as well. -- Curtis Shimamoto sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx
