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I'm going through my first install of gentoo pretty smoothly with the help of the handbook but I'm having troubles with installing grub I added GRUB_PLATFORMS="Efi-64" to etc/portage/make.conf and then emerged grub but then running
grub-install --target=X86 64-efi --efi-directory=/boot
gives me an error saying "/usr/lib/grub/X86/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory"
I haven't been able to find a way to fix this and if anyone can help me out it would be appreciated if not I'll just give up on this autistic distro and go back to arch or maybe try out void
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Check the #gentoo channel on IRC.
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>>58785364
efi-64 should be lowercase. I hope it's a typo here.
Are you sure you are loaded in uefi mode?
Does /sys/firmware/efi exist? Are there any files? If not - you are not booted in uefi mode. You need that to install grub.
Also, if you livecd (300mb) you are not boot in uefi since it doesn't support it. Use livedvd instead.
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>>58785364
Also, grub sometimes pain in the ass. If you don't use encryption - install something like rEFInd. If you use systemd - use systemd-boot.
But make sure you're booted with uefi support anyway.
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>>58785833
I am using livecd so I guess thats the problem I checked and there is nothing in /sys/firmware/efi so what should I do from here? And I did use lowercase for efi-64 but the handbook has it as capital
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>>58786346
Get official livedvd, it has all the support
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>>58786386
Would I just have to remount and chroot back into the system and pick up where Ieft off?
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>>58786435
Yep
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>>58786443
Okay thanks
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