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

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:31:36PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote
> 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?

  I don't know.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
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