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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 20:55:09
Message-Id: 20201227205432.489888f5@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions by Walter Dnes
1 On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:22:44 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
2
3 > > I understand why someone used to GRUB would want to continue with
4 > > it on a UEFI system, but you have no experience of it so why are
5 > > you picking the boot manager that is hardest to configure, not to
6 > > mention the most bloated?
7 > >
8 > > Referencing your sig, GRUB is the desktop environment of boot
9 > > managers, the boot loader equivalent of emacs :)
10 >
11 > I believe grub only has to be set up once, unless you often change
12 > boot drives, etc. If it's "set it and forget it" for a single-user,
13 > single hard-drive system, I'm OK with a one-time complex set-up.
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15 They all need to be set up once, whether the config is 6 lines or 260
16 lines - real examples here, not made up figures.
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18 Hmm, it seems even systemd-boot's 6 lines for 2 kernels is excessive, I
19 no longer use rEFInd, but it's config file is still in /boot and it is ONE
20 line per kernel!
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23 --
24 Neil Bothwick
25
26 Frog philosophy: Time's fun when you're having flies.

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Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>