Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
> 160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> You use LILO : that means, you don't use UEFI :
>> that means, almost certainly, you don't use recent hardware.
>
> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable :
> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub.
> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-edge machine I built  6 mth ago .
> When setting it up, I suppressed UEFI in the BIOS settings :
> isn't that what anyone not running M$ would do ?

I just disabled secure boot, although it's possible to use it with
Linux. However it would require to manually sign everything from boot
loader to kernel modules, since Gentoo has no infrastructure to do
that. Maybe a future project.

I don't "supress" UEFI, since it's *obviously* so much better than
BIOS, and since bootctl (the program formerly known as gummiboot) it's
incredible easy to use. You don't even notice it's there.

Also, I'm not sure, but I believe there are motherboards where you
don't have the option to "supress" UEFI, since they simply don't have
BIOS anymore. I could be wrong; but even if that's the case, I'm
pretty sure in the future BIOS will get relegated to a niche market,
if it doesn't completely disappear.

Seriously, UEFI is soooo much better.

Regards.
-- 
Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de Carrera Asociado C
Departamento de Matemáticas
Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México