From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SppaB-0003XW-M5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:47:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0D77E05D7; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5120E0527 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C62B1B4009 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:45:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.081 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.081 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.072, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id je2KLcsXWtbH for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65DD01B413C for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SppXp-00068J-Dg for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:45:09 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-195-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.195.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:45:09 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-195-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 01:45:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:41:06 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20120104102432.0815d900@rohan.example.com> <4FFB4AC9.3010402@xunil.at> <4FFC9EB5.9020903@xunil.at> <500099D9.6000603@xunil.at> 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-195-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: <500099D9.6000603@xunil.at> X-Archives-Salt: faf4a5b2-71f8-4cf4-b1ec-1b2a6d4f39c3 X-Archives-Hash: f1743c0723147ca2bcabf5bab9233203 On 07/13/2012 02:57 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially >> with that win7pro on board. >> >> It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) > > For anyone else attacking this: > > I now have both GRUB2/Gentoo and Win7pro booting via UEFI here. > > It *works* so far, still some polishing to do ... but I am quite happy > with the situation. SSD added for /root and /home ... all disks GPT now > (and disabled BIOS-booting completely). Congratulations :) Just to clarify, you are using the ersatz software emulator for UEFI because the BIOS is old, is this correct?