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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:44:02 -0400
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On Mon, Aug 13 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:11:37 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
> GRUB2 works fine with MBR partition tables. But if you're starting from
> scratch, you may as well use GPT and get rid of the legacy MBR
> limitations and fragility.

OK, but what about EFI?  That seems to involve more work and the writeup
suggests that you need a separate (FAT32) boot partition?

allan