From: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.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 01:07:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8240e63c-a239-d64c-ddf3-74c43e8040c9@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201225182414.72c6f0c0@digimed.co.uk>
On 25/12/2020 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot,
>> Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to
>> learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread
>> tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI
>> mode properly.
>
> 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.
Cheers,
Wol
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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 [this message]
2020-12-27 2:01 ` Dale
2020-12-27 4:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Thomas Mueller
2020-12-27 9:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2020-12-25 18:45 ` 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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