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On 09/04/16 23:50, Philip Webb wrote: |
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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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Philip, the discussion was prompted from this original message by WilliamH: |
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https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/df3c1494ea49191d4e3d442e37eb8ca2 |
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Basically there is a desire to either (1) move /bin, /sbin to /usr/bin, |
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/usr/sbin or (2) the reverse (ie. eliminate /usr) for a variety of |
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reasons, but predominately to offer "more users more choice", and uphold |
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the principle of Gentoo being a distro of flexibility. |
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Whilst there is some good pros/cons being aired, there is also the usual |
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amount of gentoo bike-shedding, and personal preference distorting the |
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discussion :) . |