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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:45:57
Message-Id: CAKpSnpJQKEJq6w_D3R4qU859GAP5CzhXC0jzPyknag49Y04J5w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible? by Walter Dnes
1 On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 4:41 PM Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 >
3
4 > After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot,
5 > Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to
6 > learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread
7 > tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI
8 > mode properly.
9 Learning about UEFI: https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
10 Suggestion: forget about grub; refind is the way to go (link above)
11 Also: you don't need parted; gdisk is fine if you're OK with fdisk
12
13 Cheers
14
15 Jorge Almeida

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible? Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>