Re: Booting via systemd-boot

Michael <[email protected]> Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:37:24 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID	<13985825.uLZWGnKmhe@rogueboard>

On Saturday, 4 April 2026 13:52:21 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey 
wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Has anyone succeeded with this? I've tried it on at least three boxes,
> only to get a blank screen on rebooting.
> 
> I followed the handbook precisely, and I also tried a few extras, but
> to no avail.
> 
> Even copying a backup from a machine that used to boot with
> systemd-boot, and adjusting for having an ESP where the old machine
> didn't, got me nowhere.
> 
> Grub is not favoured here, but it seems to be the only way.

I have steered away from systemd-boot altogether and for my UEFI systems 
from GRUB too, using the rather basic but elegant in its simplicity EFI 
stub instead.  However, there are other ways and means of booting your 
Gentoo:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bootloader

I have used rEFInd in the past on Apple PCs and found it quite user 
friendly.

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