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On Thursday, August 27, 2015 8:44:07 PM Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 27 Aug 2015 20:30:17 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > On 2015-08-27, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > >> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a |
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> > >> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. |
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> > > |
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> > > So you are saying (trying to read the 'tea leaves' here) that |
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> > > grub legacy ( grub-static-0.97-r12) will work well on a 64 bit systems, |
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> > I still use it on all my 64-bit machines. |
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> > |
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> > > (u)efi with say multiple drives (> 2T) and Raid-1 configs like |
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> > > btrfs-native or via lvm? |
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> > |
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> > I haven't started using UEFI boot mode mode yet, so I don't know how |
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> > thetwo grub's compare. |
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> UEFI do not need GRUB{1,2} or any other boot manager. They can boot any |
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> kernel you drop in the EFI boot partition directly, as long as you set it up |
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> so. It becomes cumbersome if you are planning to multiboot various kernels |
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& |
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> OS frequently. |
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You do need a manager like efibootmgr unless you have a really good "bios" menu |
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where you can manage your entries. Only removable media is autodetected on all |
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EFI boxes I've seen. I use GRUB2 because my efi firmware (like most) is really |
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buggy. Changing the boot order doesn't work at all (neither on the menu nor |
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through efibootmgr), so I have to delete and recreate the entries in the right |
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order. What I did is create 2 efi entries, one for my main kernel and one for |
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grub2 and I added entries for all my secondary kernels and windows on the |
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grub2 menu. |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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