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On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> 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> |
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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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If you have "secure boot", you have UEFI. You can't have it without. |
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