From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D276759CAF for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F08721C047; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A50AF21C02C for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3D22EAC60 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 18:50:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VfKayjpX3CKE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 18:50:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-45-78-239-24.dyn.295.ca [45.78.239.24]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 358762EA241 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2016 18:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 09 Apr 2016 18:50:49 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 18:50:49 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge Message-ID: <20160409225049.GA1276@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <57087E0D.3090502@gmail.com> <20160409053230.GA16529@waltdnes.org> <20160409160938.GA17530@waltdnes.org> <20160409194943.GA1271@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: f628a152-fe5b-4fb6-b5c1-aae6c01c5ae6 X-Archives-Hash: 76fceaf5d004bc4696a7a2fa03640bce 160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable : >> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub. >> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-edge machine I built 6 mth ago . >> When setting it up, I suppressed UEFI in the BIOS settings : >> isn't that what anyone not running M$ would do ? > I just disabled secure boot, although it's possible to use it with Linux. > However, it would require to manually sign everything from boot loader > to kernel modules, since Gentoo has no infrastructure to do that. > I don't "supress" UEFI, since it's *obviously* so much better than BIOS > and since bootctl (the program formerly known as gummiboot) > it's incredible easy to use. You don't even notice it's there. Sorry, I meant "suppress secure boot". My mobo doesn't have UEFI. > I believe there are motherboards where you don't have the option > to "supress" UEFI, since they simply don't have BIOS anymore. > Seriously, UEFI is soooo much better. Thanks for the enlightment (smile). Can you or anyone else answer my other question re the origin of the thread ? -- ie is this a revival of not putting /usr on its own partition or is it a new proposal to alter the file system in some other way ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca