From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781F5138E74 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 08:36:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8526E089C; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 08:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7925CE0891 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 08:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.5.48.27] (unknown [80.30.64.232]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DBC8123133 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2014 08:36:25 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: References: <15724934.eWR0Wdy2P9@wstn> <75c8179d-5bc3-4026-9b07-fb7a2f85555b@email.android.com> <78607509.rcQ5WraxNG@wstn> <269dc585-c80c-49a7-a407-a419532273b3@email.android.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----IJJBU31LZ8933A8257E511KATALOVE" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels From: Neil Bothwick Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:36:22 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <571f2088-0a2d-4b43-84c9-5f77b9260f04@email.android.com> X-Archives-Salt: 39da8383-a285-4a93-b983-5ab5ef5a6b3a X-Archives-Hash: 3b9b68549a1f483bb7ae587edeb13041 ------IJJBU31LZ8933A8257E511KATALOVE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 3 November 2014 02:09:26 WET, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > > > That makes perfect sense. I still have systems using the old grub. > It works > > so why mess with it? However, I may give gummiboot a whirl, > especially as > > UEFI let's your multiple bootloader. > > I use gummiboot on my laptop and like it, but it has a downside: your > kernel has to be on a FAT filesystem and you therefore have to account > for that when setting the size of the ESP. > That's not a problem for me. I already have a 1G ESP, I saw no point in having a separate ESP and /boot and /everythingelse so I combined the first two. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------IJJBU31LZ8933A8257E511KATALOVE Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
On 3 November 2014 02:09:26 WET, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

 That makes perfect sense. I still have systems using the old grub. It works
 so why mess with it? However, I may give gummiboot a whirl, especially as
 UEFI let's your multiple bootloader.

I use gummiboot on my laptop and like it, but it has a downside: your
kernel has to be on a FAT filesystem and you therefore have to account
for that when setting the size of the ESP.

I've been meaning to try refind because it's a also a boot manager but
it can handle non-FAT filesystems.


That's not a problem for me. I already have a 1G ESP, I saw no point in having a separate ESP and /boot and /everythingelse so I combined the first two.
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