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Duncan posted on Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:27:41 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> Henry W. Peters posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:38:58 -0400 as excerpted: |
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>> One other thing I have been meditating upon, is that I have a UEFI |
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>> bios... (Windows 8), I did install an MBR on the external disk, with |
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>> grub on it... & when I boot, in legacy mode, from it... grub works... |
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>> so thinking I might be able to update grub, after the Gentoo install, & |
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>> (hopefully) use grub to load the Gentoo system... Grub would not |
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>> install in the UEFI, & the directions to boot from it, with Linux, are |
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>> a bit complex for me at this stage... (will try to work that out too, |
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>> eventually). |
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> You don't mention what version of grub you're talking about. I haven't |
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> used grub's UEFI modes personally (see below), but grub2 is supposed to |
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> fully support it, and definitely CAN install in the UEFI reserved |
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> partition. |
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... And immediately after sending that, I checked the gentoo-dev |
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list/group (subscribed via gmane.org's list2news service, so it's a |
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newsgroup to me, just as this list is), and find this new thread: |
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Subject: News item: GRUB2 migration |
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[quoting from the body] |
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GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news |
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item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. |
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Title: GRUB2 migration |
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Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2013-09-22 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-Installed: <sys-boot/grub-1 |
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A newer version of GRUB (sys-boot/grub) is now stable. There are now |
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two available slots: |
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sys-boot/grub:0 - Known as "GRUB Legacy" |
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sys-boot/grub:2 - Known as "GRUB2" |
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[end quote, there's more, including links to migration guides, etc] |
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Here's the gmane web-version archived-message link (there's a link to the |
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topic/thread on the left, if you want to see the full thread): |
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http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/88209 |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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