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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." -
Unknown (paraphrased)

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-18 18:40 UTC|newest]

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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