Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:49:07
Message-Id: yu9ipcngdwt.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2) by Neil Bothwick
1 On Mon, Aug 13 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:11:37 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
4 >
5 > GRUB2 works fine with MBR partition tables. But if you're starting from
6 > scratch, you may as well use GPT and get rid of the legacy MBR
7 > limitations and fragility.
8
9 OK, but what about EFI? That seems to involve more work and the writeup
10 suggests that you need a separate (FAT32) boot partition?
11
12 allan