From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:40:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231018194030.4d019c59@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33ef3005-10a8-e910-89bb-e72daba39bf4@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:49:34 -0500, Dale wrote:
> I usually use cgdisk, or cfdisk, but they all do the same thing. Just a
> different interface. As long as all this is documented, I'll just
> follow it and it should work. After all, efi has been around for a long
> while now. I'm sure millions of people have it installed, likely
> billions.
>
> I do wonder, can one still put things like memtest, Knoppix and such in
> that thing? I'm sure it can be done but never seen it mentioned. I
> started to put it on the old 770T but didn't now that I have that Ventoy
> USB thing.
Do you mean booting from the ISO images? That's a GRUB thing, it doesn't
matter how it is loaded, EFI or MBR.
However, being able to do away with GRUB is, to me, a bigger benefit than
not being able to boot ISOs is a drawback. Use either systemd-boot (it
doesn't need systemd) or rEFInd.
--
Neil Bothwick
"Of course, I could switch back to Windows. At least there, if I have a
problem, I don't suffer under the illusion that I could ever fix it." -
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-16 7:51 [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help Dale
2023-10-16 8:01 ` Wols Lists
2023-10-16 8:28 ` Dale
2023-10-16 9:15 ` Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor
2023-10-16 10:24 ` Michael
2023-10-16 16:56 ` Dale
2023-10-16 18:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-16 18:26 ` Mark Knecht
2023-10-17 0:34 ` Dale
2023-10-17 7:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-17 16:41 ` Dale
2023-10-17 17:50 ` Mark Knecht
2023-10-17 18:07 ` Dale
2023-10-17 18:24 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-10-17 18:54 ` Dale
2023-10-17 19:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-18 2:50 ` Dale
2023-10-18 7:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-18 9:23 ` Michael
2023-10-18 13:57 ` Grant Edwards
2023-10-18 17:49 ` Dale
2023-10-18 18:40 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2023-10-18 23:24 ` Dale
2023-10-19 11:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-19 16:24 ` Dale
2023-10-18 18:38 ` Michael
2023-10-18 21:07 ` Grant Edwards
2023-10-18 22:27 ` Dale
2023-10-18 23:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-19 4:49 ` [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info Dale
2023-10-19 8:40 ` Michael
2023-10-19 14:45 ` Dale
2023-10-19 15:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-19 19:47 ` Dale
2023-10-19 11:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-19 11:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-19 15:09 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-10-29 11:23 ` Wols Lists
2023-10-19 16:43 ` Laurence Perkins
2023-10-19 19:38 ` Grant Edwards
2023-10-19 11:47 ` [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help Peter Humphrey
2023-10-18 17:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-18 18:41 ` Michael
2023-10-17 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2023-10-17 21:46 ` Dale
2023-10-17 22:22 ` Mark Knecht
2023-10-17 22:31 ` Dale
2023-10-18 3:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-10-18 7:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-18 14:25 ` Rich Freeman
2023-10-18 14:40 ` Grant Edwards
2023-10-18 17:54 ` Dale
2023-10-17 19:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2023-10-17 21:52 ` Dale
2023-10-18 8:23 ` Dale
2023-10-18 11:56 ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2023-10-18 18:54 ` Dale
2023-10-16 18:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-10-16 14:23 ` Mark Knecht
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