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On 25/12/2020 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot, |
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>> Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to |
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>> learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread |
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>> tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI |
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>> mode properly. |
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> UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant of |
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> fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you don't |
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> already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler. |
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I got the impression that on newer systems, gdisk and fdisk were the |
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same thing ... |
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Certainly I moved to gdisk because "fdisk can't handle GPTs", and then |
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someone said "oh yes it can" so I investigated and oh yes it could. I |
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still use gdisk, but as I say they now appear to be the same thing. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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