From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9BE481382C5 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7562E0AA6; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C651E0A93 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-149-69-253.range86-149.btcentralplus.com ([86.149.69.253] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1ktKXK-0004MN-3U for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20201225182414.72c6f0c0@digimed.co.uk> From: antlists Message-ID: <8240e63c-a239-d64c-ddf3-74c43e8040c9@youngman.org.uk> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 01:07:58 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.0 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201225182414.72c6f0c0@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2684a2ad-4e5f-4d4c-b2b9-91b48a71b2d9 X-Archives-Hash: fbba244404b60b3d88ef790eda49747e 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