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160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable : |
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>> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub. |
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>> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-edge machine I built 6 mth ago . |
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>> When setting it up, I suppressed UEFI in the BIOS settings : |
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>> isn't that what anyone not running M$ would do ? |
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> I just disabled secure boot, although it's possible to use it with Linux. |
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> However, it would require to manually sign everything from boot loader |
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> to kernel modules, since Gentoo has no infrastructure to do that. |
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> I don't "supress" UEFI, since it's *obviously* so much better than BIOS |
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> and since bootctl (the program formerly known as gummiboot) |
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> it's incredible easy to use. You don't even notice it's there. |
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Sorry, I meant "suppress secure boot". My mobo doesn't have UEFI. |
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> I believe there are motherboards where you don't have the option |
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> to "supress" UEFI, since they simply don't have BIOS anymore. |
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> Seriously, UEFI is soooo much better. |
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Thanks for the enlightment (smile). |
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Can you or anyone else answer my other question re the origin of the thread ? |
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-- ie is this a revival of not putting /usr on its own partition |
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or is it a new proposal to alter the file system in some other way ? |
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