Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:24:41 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > 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.

> On my main rig, BIOS type, in my /boot I have memtest.  Grub adds a
> entry for it.  I guess I could also but Knoppix or something in there as
> well.  I was just wondering if that is still a option with efi.  I'd
> think it is.  After all, it's like like being able to boot either Linux
> or windoze.  Lots of people dual boot and I'm sure efi hasn't changed
> that. 

Oh yes, you can boot memtest because that's a ramdisk image, it's only
ISOs that are restricted to Grub. Having said that, many live distros can
be booted from any bootloader if you copy the files from the ISO. I
always have SystemRescue in my /boot partition.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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