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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?
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On Friday, 25 December 2020 19:17:24 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 06:45:42PM +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote
> 
> > Learning about UEFI: https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
> > Suggestion: forget about grub; refind is the way to go (link above)
> > Also: you don't need parted; gdisk is fine if you're OK with fdisk
> 
>   Thanks for the pointers.  Are there any changes I have to make in my
> linux kernel to boot UEFI?  Note; legacy BIOS boot is *NOT* an option
> on my new Dell XPS8940.  It's UEFI boot only.

The installation handbook is useful on setting UEFI up. It worked for me, 
anyway.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Bootloader

-- 
Regards,
Peter.