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From: Georg Rudoy <0xd34df00d@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 20:41:51
Message-Id: 02052020.044305467pm%iZZ/QfQzQrN5QAEURjLe/rA14YE=%0xd34df00d@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...) by "Andreas K. Hüttel"
1 On 02.05.2020 at 20:30 user Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
2 > I'm hereby volunteering to clean things up. But - I'll go the brutal way:
3 >
4 > * Legacy boot and MBR will get kicked out. *
5 >
6 > This is your chance to protest or support.
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8 I just installed Gentoo last month on an AMD64 machine that was booted in legacy mode
9 and I had no control over that as far as I can tell.
10 That was a very recent, freshly ordered Ryzen 3700 Hetzner server.
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12 Dunno if such anecdotical evidence proves anything though.
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16 Georg Rudoy

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