Gentoo Dual Boot on UEFI

[Eumcoz]

Hey all,

I am trying to dual boot windows 8 and gentoo. I have a UEFI laptop, and found this guide: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Dual_boot_with_Windows_7/8 I followed the guide and everything seems to have installed correctly, but my refind won't see my gentoo install. I can use the uefi bootable media to load the OS through refind. Does anyone know of a way to get refind to see the partition itself instead of having to use the bootable media to do it?

Thank you

[Telemin]

Hi there,

Unfortunately I found that wiki article didn;t work for me either and I did things the grub2 way, which unless you have a reason to use refind I would be inclined to encourage, since it is the most commonly used bootloader by the linux community and hence best supported.

I am typing this from a machine that boots in UEFI mode without needing refind at all. Just GRUB2 booting to either windows or gentoo.

I achieve this as follows:

Boot (EFI capable) livecd make a partition table like this:

[Eumcoz]

Hello,

I guess my case is slightly different, but maybe still workable with Grub2. My setup is as follows:

[DONAHUE]

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[ct85711]

I thought I would mentioned, I just went through and installed windows7 and gentoo recently doing UEFI boot mode. I first installed gentoo, and had that booting through UEFI using grub2. Afterwards, I installed windows 7 (in UEFI, have to use a usb boot to get the installer to do UEFI). Once the windows installer was going in UEFI, it installed perfectly fine right along my Gentoo. I noticed, if windows installer is loaded in msdos (the old partition system), the installer throws a fit if it sees a linux system. However, the UEFI des not care, it'll automaticaly add the windows boot stuff in the correct partition for UEFI if that's already setup (doesn't matter if that partition is on a seperate disk). The only thing I had to do afterwards, was change my bios to load the linux UEFI instead of windows (did not have to reinstall grub at all), and once I got back in gentoo, ran the mkconfig again to add the windows option into my grub config. The big thing to be aware of, grub will NOT load/see windows if windows is installed on a msdos drive, and gentoo is loaded as UEFI. To check, on which partition setup you are using in linux, is check the drive's label on if it say GPT or msdos in fdisk (gdisk defaults to GPT, when it makes a partition setup).

[DONAHUE]

For clarity: the refind that you installed on the hard drive boots?
When the refind on the hard drive boots it displays an icon for windows (an icon for the sysresccd/usb if inserted) but not one for gentoo? Or does it have Gentoo icon but fail to boot when gentoo is selected?
Does windows boot from installed refind?
Does sysresccd boot from installed refind?

[djdunn]

i dualboot with syslinux here is how

secure boot off, obvious reasons, mostly because it has nothing to do with security

set up windows 7 to install on partition 3, on a gpt disk, actually installed it 2nd on a booting linux box, i have /boot, swap, and windows partition, root on separate disks.

for some reason even while booting uefi windows wanted CSM turned on

i have the boot order in uefi menu set to 1) syslinux 2) windows

here is my syslinux label for windows

[srs5694]

[Telemin]

Hi there Srs5694,

Thank you for the clarifications and explanations of what rEFInd is and why it exists. Now I understand it I am intending to migrate back to EFI stub loading the kernel and choosing with rEFInd. (The only reason I went to grub was to make dual booting with windows less of a faff with UEFI settings and pressing the F12 key at the right time etc...)

Since you are the author and so the best equipped to do this, would you perhaps consider adding the information from your post into the wiki? At the moment there is not actually a rEFInd article. I realise there is the UEFI_Dual_boot_with_Windows_7/8 article already, but having some explanation of rEFInd vs GRUB and a more detailed explanation of e.g why rEFInd is not a boot loader, would be really helpful.

Thanks

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[Eumcoz]

[DONAHUE]

sorry, I did not ask you to post the url returned after running the step

[srs5694]

[Eumcoz]

Good news is that there is defiantly progress being made, I now have icons in refind.

[DONAHUE]

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