No loader required anymore!

Few steps to boot your kernel from UEFI

make sure you have an EFI System type partition as a first one on your GPT partitioned drive
i.e. smth like this:

 root@gentop〉 ~〉 gdisk -l /dev/sdb
 GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.6

 Partition table scan:
 MBR: protective
 BSD: not present
 APM: not present
 GPT: present

 Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
 Disk /dev/sdb: 117231408 sectors, 55.9 GiB
 Logical sector size: 512 bytes
 Disk identifier (GUID): AB335B72-84EE-4567-B776-C94F639DB796
 Partition table holds up to 128 entries
 First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 117231374
 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
 Total free space is 1887981 sectors (921.9 MiB)

 Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
 1            2048         1050623   512.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System
 2         1050624         2099199   512.0 MiB   8300  Linux filesystem
 3         2099200       115345407   54.0 GiB    8300  Linux filesystem

it must be FAT32 formatted. (A lot of docs can be googled w/ details how to make it).

turn the following options in kernel’s .config

 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
 CONFIG_EFI=y
 CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y

compile your EFI ready kernel
copy kernel image (bzImage) to the /EFI/ directory on the EFI System partition. Let it be just /EFI/kernel.efi.
for the final step you need to add a Boot Entry. To do so you have to have sys-boot/efibootmgr installed and your current kernel must be already loaded via UEFI :-) Internet has a lot of docs how to achieve that using bootable USB flash drive for example… So finally issue the following command:
```
 root@gentop〉 ~〉 efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdb -l \\EFI\\kernel.efi -L 'Current Gentoo Linux' -u 'root=/dev/sdb3 ro'
 BootCurrent: 0002
 Timeout: 2 seconds
 BootOrder: 0002,0000,0001
 Boot0000* GRUB2
 Boot0001  Hard Drive
 Boot0002* Current Gentoo Linux
```
-u option as you may notice used to pass additional params to the kernel. Alternatively, you may compile the kernel w/ that params built-in.

As for me, I prefer to have the following boot entries:
- Current Gentoo Linux – to boot into a last compiled kernel;
- Previous Gentoo Linux – to boot into a previous kernel in case of troubles w/ the last compiled one;
- Stable Gentoo Linux – a kernel which I update from time to time (approx after 3-4 releases) and known as stable and really working (in case of damn serious troubles ;-)
Now you can reboot, enter setup and/or use boot menu to choose (or override) default boot item (order), so the next boot your computer will automatically select just added entry and boot w/o any intermediate screens or questions (like boot loaders do). Actually using efibootmgr you can change boot order from linux as well (just read the man page).

~~… so now I’m thinking about to get rid of grub2 from my system ;-)~~ Upd: DONE