On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:04:26 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > However, I've just escaped fr another beast, ie Linux Mint 19 : > DON'T try to install it alongside Gentoo !! > > This beast leads you along to a point where you've told it where to > install -- a partition on my HDD (sdb5) -- , > you click 'proceed' & it chugs along nicely for some time, > then it says it's trying to install a bootloader > without asking whether you want it to or where to do it. For future reference, start the Mint installer with "ubiquity -b", then t doesn't install a boot loader at all and you can add it to your Gentoo bootloader after rebooting. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore.