From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACAAF1382C5 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 06:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B114CE0B50; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 06:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newideatest.site (jupiter.newideatest.site [209.141.58.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEE88E09DF for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 06:30:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=newideatest.site; s=main; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:To:Subject:Sender: Reply-To:Cc:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From: Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help: List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=fl8QzyZATZ5eAnuSx4eQZXrQW3fn3v7DJo1kFrXB6zo=; b=CjOgPoAirlClh52o4BnjrXHciW ANVvaw5zK5tqvuzEA3f/bXZPV6WDnsmtnugN8g+F3rzjrRiu7x4CJ0OyGgW6n+S1MH507hwEzLycZ WJdR2ABMPeZo6cE8e4pbG0zWc6LpNf3b8M6aEoBMrLsOCBTDPd97YpkOnC374SRHPUGIzbPYJI5WX pKbzJXUIMZSNr6/OAd1VsxifASFaYmtOa8jZsjtUzmKvBeL8GQ7dYob3+fXgS8/qKz9jzxZXLLJLh D1KPhAbhpG3x9Nn50MPv/0zW3xnCnirpRrIeFavi1UstZ4Jt2zxkS2bnCdHy1ItVcLTJLRE9lS8UQ e58nD0YA==; Received: from 71.sub-174-248-157.myvzw.com ([174.248.157.71] helo=[192.168.42.230]) by newideatest.site with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP384R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA384__CHACHA20_POLY1305:256) (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1ku8Wc-00Eo3d-VZ; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 06:30:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] UEFI install noob questions To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, Walter Dnes References: From: Dan Egli Message-ID: <0dcfd47d-87d4-f294-85dc-dcff76648840@newideatest.site> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 23:30:27 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: unscanned primary on newideatest.site (); Tue, 29 Dec 2020 06:30:31 +0000 X-Archives-Salt: 69f0ab6b-ca1b-4a90-986b-b7320d49026c X-Archives-Hash: b55a2cab584635e00af720dd32f53653 More like off-LIST help since he was still emailing me. But I was glad to help him. :) On 12/28/20 7:18 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I took up Dan Egli's kind offer of offline help and with that, my XPS > 8940 is now booting UEFI. Thanks Dan. I've logged in both at the > physical keyboard and via ssh from my current desktop PC. There's still > the usual grunt work setting up the regular user account and the usual > applications, but that shouldn't be a problem... famous last words. >