Gentoo Linux uefi boot disk preparations for "dummies"

Gentoo Linux uefi boot disk preparations for "dummies"

If you use a different distro other than gentoo livecd to install gentoo type mkdir /mnt/gentoo to create the directory mountpoint used to mount the destination disk.

parted -a optimal /dev/sdX
mklabel gpt
mkpart esp fat32 1 512
mkpart swap linux-swap 512 8704
mkpart rootfs ext4 8704 100%
set 1 boot on
quit
mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sdX1
mkswap /dev/sdX2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX3
mount /dev/sdX3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/gentoo/boot