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On Wednesday 20 May 2015 10:23:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can |
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> > handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't |
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> > want to change too many things at once. By which I mean that I'm going |
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> > to try btrfs (my fingers will learn how to type that one day), and I |
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> > might go for GPT if it's not going to cause a lot of trouble, but I |
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> > really don't want to have to wrestle with grub-2 at the same time. |
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> > Maybe later. |
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> > So, GPT with legacy grub, anyone? |
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> It should do, as long as you create the BIOS Boot partition at the start |
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> of the drive. It shouldn't care what the BIOS is trying to load. |
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OK; I'll try it then. Thanks. |
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> But if it's a new system, doesn't it use UEFI? In which case, grubosaurus |
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> won't work but you can avoid GRUB2 by using Gummiboot, which is even simpler |
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> that GRUB<1. |
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No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does |
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that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB? |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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