[gentoo-user] Re: Install from USB stick; here's how

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-09-06, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>
>> Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
>> with UEFI machines where the simple 'dd' method doesn't?
>
>   I don't have a UEFI boot machine, so I don't know.
>
>> One datapoint: my motherboard has UEFI bios, and simply dd'ing the
>> minimal install .iso to a flash drive worked fine.  When I boot up
>> with the USB drive, the BIOS boot menu shows two entries for the USB
>> drive, the first one always worked, so I never tried the second one...
>
>   Are you booting in UEFI mode or "legacy mode"?

Legacy mode.  Will a minimal install CD work in non-legacy UEFI-only
mode?

-- 
Grant