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what GRUB_PLATFORMS do i use for arm64
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:20 pm
by ShinyCuber395
i'm installing gentoo for fun on vmware fusion and wanna install grub but i don't know what GRUB_PLATFORMS="something" do i echo to make.conf for arm64 since the arm64 handbook is nonexistent
i am on a m4 macbook air
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:47 pm
by NeddySeagoon
ShinyCuber395,
Welcome to Gentoo. On my Raspberry Pi 5, which is arm or arm64, I get.
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$ emerge grub -pv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 4.82 s (backtrack: 0/20).
[ebuild N ] sys-boot/grub-2.14_rc1-r1:2/2.14_rc1-r1::gentoo USE="device-mapper fonts nls sdl themes truetype -doc -efiemu -libzfs -mount -protect -secureboot (-test) -verify-sig" GRUB_PLATFORMS="-coreboot -efi-32 -efi-64 -emu -ieee1275 (-loongson) -multiboot -pc (-qemu) (-qemu-mips) (-uboot) -xen (-xen-32) -xen-pvh" 8,799 KiB
You cannot choose (-plaform) settings, they are forced off.
That really leaves a choice of efi-32 or efi-64 depending on your EFI fimware.
I don't know of any 32 bit arm boards that have EFI firmware, so I would start with
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:04 pm
by ShinyCuber395
oh cool, when i run grub-install it recognizes i'm on arm64
thanks for the advice!
