From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 09:45:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201227094539.0da50b91@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8240e63c-a239-d64c-ddf3-74c43e8040c9@youngman.org.uk>
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On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:58 +0000, antlists wrote:
> > UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant
> > of fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you
> > don't already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler.
> >
> >
> I got the impression that on newer systems, gdisk and fdisk were the
> same thing ...
>
> Certainly I moved to gdisk because "fdisk can't handle GPTs", and then
> someone said "oh yes it can" so I investigated and oh yes it could. I
> still use gdisk, but as I say they now appear to be the same thing.
Indeed, GPT support has now been added to fdisk. So all versions of gdisk
handle GPT while recent versions of fdisk do it. That's why I recommend
gdisk, to be certain of using a version with GPT support.
--
Neil Bothwick
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-27 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-23 4:05 [gentoo-user] Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible? Walter Dnes
2020-12-23 4:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-12-23 5:37 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-23 12:44 ` Michael
2020-12-24 22:49 ` Dan Egli
2020-12-25 16:41 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-25 18:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-27 1:07 ` antlists
2020-12-27 2:01 ` Dale
2020-12-27 4:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Thomas Mueller
2020-12-27 9:45 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2020-12-25 18:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 19:17 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-25 19:32 ` Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 20:55 ` Walter Dnes
2020-12-25 21:01 ` Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 21:04 ` Jorge Almeida
2020-12-25 21:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-25 22:38 ` Dale
2020-12-25 23:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-25 23:15 ` Dale
2020-12-25 22:24 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-26 19:33 ` Dan Egli
2020-12-23 12:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
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