Installing to a GPT partition

[karu.pruun]

You need to put the DragonFly efi boot image /boot/boot1.efi on your
ESP partition (which is just a FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32 partition). If
you are only booting DragonFly, then copy this image to the ESP as
follows:

EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

It will be the default boot image for UEFI.

If you want to multiboot, you can save it as something like

EFI/DFLY/DFLYX64.EFI

and use refind as your boot manager. The other partitions you can
install as described on gpt(8). See [1] for an exhaustive and
entertaining overview of how UEFI works.

Cheers

Peeter


[1] https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/


On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 5:39 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So a hard drive upgrade means there is no longer an old style drive,
> which it appears installing Dragonfly in the GPT/EFI world is
> currently an adventure.
>
> The relevant partitions (using Linux descriptions) that I would like
> to use are:
>
> /dev/sda8 - EFI
> /dev/sda9 - main Dragonfly
> /dev/sdc5 - a 10GB partition for swap
>
> Any suggestions/links on how to install Dragonfly in such a scenario?