On 03/02/2013 10:32 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: > > which works really beautifully and needs no manual intervention when new > kernels arrive. However it did take me some time with a lot of help from > Rod Smith to get it all set up correctly. > > Basic steps were: > 1) Format disks with GPT instead of MSDOS > 2) Make sure that there is a /boot/efi/EFI ESP which is formatted FAT32 > 3) Since I also wanted /boot to contain initial ramdisk and kernel I had > /boot as a directory in my root (/) partition which is ext4. > 4) In order to get it to work I made sure that the rEFInd config files were > set up in the ESP as well as the required files in /boot (and including the > ext4 rEFInd driver files in the ESP so that rEFInd can read the initrd and > kernel files unde ext4 in /boot (and include the rEFInd driver files in > those directories also. > 5) In my system I found that the standard method to write the nvram entries > failed to work - so I had to boot to the efi shell from the arch install > iso on usbkey and write the nvram entries from the shell. > > If you want more details I can post more tomorrow. > > I hope this helps. > Of these, step 4 seems to me to be undocumented. And I'm assuming I don't need to worry about step 5 unless it bites me? How will I know? Thanks!
