directly booting linux from EFI

Paul Mansfield paul at mansfield.co.uk
Wed Apr 20 15:27:48 CEST 2016


https://plus.google.com/u/0/101147012065848861147/posts/jp11ag1ETfe

loading without grub2 - 14 seconds!

$ sudo cp -v /boot/vmlinuz /boot/efi/EFI/your_name/kernel.efi
$ sudo cp -v /boot/initrd /boot/efi/EFI/your_name/initrd.img
$ sudo efibootmgr -c -d /dev/your_disk -p 1 -l
\\EFI\\your_name\\kernel.efi -L "Linux" -u
"initrd=/EFI/your_name/initrd.img root=/dev/your_disk ro
intel_idle.max_cstate=0 quiet"

reboot and be happy)

your_name - name of your directory
your_disk - name of your disk where system been installed


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