From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RiMAf-00069K-Iu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:26:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5195721C15F; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD9DE21C064 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 08:24:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghrr19 with SMTP id r19so6952048ghr.40 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:24:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:organization:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8TquJvZSXMMsUZDiPxNLpUuLnf+lGQ3RzTu/W+QuIJM=; b=Z0N7WSe5mj0Cj+TXp0bJ/f9nLRCvRc3D/SLmM4sMISDkL+Mo3vXl0VZcIJxUjaoCr2 dhhQuImEauNuK0wEX+Gbfk8fXfMkx1fHq8km8Aj6aeedKWR8B42ganfX2bb/7c5WWZxa uIkLNdcq9mBhkJ0d7tbUF/LdILWioGzRujf0k= Received: by 10.236.115.201 with SMTP id e49mr57812356yhh.89.1325665485164; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:24:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm115675427anh.20.2012.01.04.00.24.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:24:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:24:32 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc Message-ID: <20120104102432.0815d900@rohan.example.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cd4c72e7-14cb-4866-85e7-581438f48d63 X-Archives-Hash: 250fbf393aa26ceb14c1e2b8db13eca3 Howdy, Installing on a nice shiny new Dell laptop which has these new-fangled UEFI and 4K-sector disks. Never having worked on these things before, I'm somewhat wary especially as we've had huge threads before on what to do and not do. I don't want to rehash all of that all over again (and the info is somewhat scattered) so I have one simple question: Is this wiki page accurate and worth following: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com