Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install from USB stick; here's how
Date:	Fri, 06 Sep 2013 20:21:53
Message-Id:	`20130906202136.GA5443@waltdnes.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Re: Install from USB stick; here's how by Grant Edwards

1	On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:59:28PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
2
3	> Do the instructions at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO work
4	> with UEFI machines where the simple 'dd' method doesn't?
5
6	I don't have a UEFI boot machine, so I don't know.
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8	> One datapoint: my motherboard has UEFI bios, and simply dd'ing the
9	> minimal install .iso to a flash drive worked fine. When I boot up
10	> with the USB drive, the BIOS boot menu shows two entries for the USB
11	> drive, the first one always worked, so I never tried the second one...
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13	Are you booting in UEFI mode or "legacy mode"?
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15	--
16	Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
17	I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Subject	Author
[gentoo-user] Re: Install from USB stick; here's how	Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>