Bug 609328

Summary:	handbook
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vieri <rentorbuy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matthew Marchese <maffblaster>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler, kensington
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Vieri 2017-02-14 10:38:40 UTC

It's not clear to me if I should file this "bug" report in this category (sorry in advance).

There's a mistake in the Handbook. Here's a link to the amd64 handbook (others may apply):

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Install

grub-install --target=x86 64-efi --efi-directory=/boot
should read:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot 

Also, the handbook never mounts /boot as fat32. The examples seem to suggest to use /boot/efi as th emount point for the fat32 partition. So, the command should really read:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi /dev/sda

It would be nice to also mention how to install grub so that the user can boot with both Legacy BIOS and UEFI. The command sequence should be:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi /dev/sda
grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda

Comment 1 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2017-02-14 17:50:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 608798 ***