Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Wednesday 20 May 2015 10:23:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can
> > handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't
> > want to change too many things at once. By which I mean that I'm going
> > to try btrfs (my fingers will learn how to type that one day), and I
> > might go for GPT if it's not going to cause a lot of trouble, but I
> > really don't want to have to wrestle with grub-2 at the same time.
> > Maybe later.
> > 
> > So, GPT with legacy grub, anyone?
> 
> It should do, as long as you create the BIOS Boot partition at the start
> of the drive. It shouldn't care what the BIOS is trying to load.

OK; I'll try it then. Thanks.

> But if it's a new system, doesn't it use UEFI? In which case, grubosaurus
> won't work but you can avoid GRUB2 by using Gummiboot, which is even simpler
> that GRUB<1.

No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does 
that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB?

-- 
Rgds
Peter