Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:38:13 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>>> You can also use systemd-boot, a separate package for OpenRC users,
>>> which I have used without an initramfs. systemd-boot is very
>>> lightweight and only requires a two line config for each kernel, plus
>>> a two line general config (timeout and default). That's six lines of
>>> config for a choice of two kernels.
>>>
>>> Of course, if you want absolutely minimal, you don't need any boot
>>> manager with UEFI and you can select your kernel from the firmware's
>>> boot menu, but that loses you the ability to edit options on the fly.
>> Is that similar to the old now gone Grub?  I admit, I sort of liked the
>> old grub.  Adding/removing a kernel was pretty darn easy. 
> It's much simpler. GRUB is a bootloader, UEFI is a bootloader in
> firmware, so the software is only used to tell it what to do, not control
> the boot process itself.
>
>

Oh.  I'm still on BIOS so that leaves me out, for now at least.  ;-) 
That said, my mobo is getting some age on it.  After the internet
switch, NAS and such, I plan to build a new rig.  May recycle some stuff
but newish anyway. 

Dale

:-)  :-)