Arch & UEFI [Was: Bug on missing staging modules rpm]

[Alonzo Cuellar]

Hi
Yes that is what it does. Sorry for the long response. I've been on the
road.

On Jul 20, 2016 17:11, "Jason White" <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:
>
> Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> > A couple specific questions below ...
> >
> > Alonzo Cuellar writes:
> > > ...
> > > After that I just configure /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
> > >
> > >
> > > title   Arch Linux
> > > linux   /vmlinuz-linux
> > > initrd  /intel-ucode.img
> > I didn't have this entry, but I do see the file in the directory. So, I
> > added it as you have it. But, I'm curious. What does it do?
>
> According to the bootctl manual page:
> "A copy of systemd-boot will be stored as the EFI default/fallback loader
at
> /EFI/Boot/boot*.efi. A systemd-boot entry in the EFI boot variables is
created
> and added to the top of the boot order list."
>
> I strongly suspect the configuration file, as above, then enables the boot
> loader to find the kernel and the initrd. Thus the start-up order is:
>
> EFI firmware -> boot loader -> kernel.
>
> and the kernel is not booted directly by the EFI firmware in this
> configuration, but by the *.efi boot loader executable specified in the
EFI
> boot variable.
>
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