Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding building Gentoo and UEFI vs Non UEFI

[Mick]

On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 09:29:42 GMT Andrew Lowe wrote:
> On 20/11/18 17:16, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:51:34 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:
> >> 	I just have this little niggling doubt, probably baseless, in
> >>
> >> the back of my mind that there maybe something that may cause a problem
> >> for the newly built stuff due to it not being natively booted in UEFI or
> >> something like that when it was built.
> >
> > The only issue you're likely to face is setting up booting from the SSD.
> > You need to be booted via UEFI to set up UEFI booting, but you can do
> > that from your SysResCd stick.
>
> 	The SSD is up and running. I get Gentoo booting to a console and I'm
> now in the process of getting stuff installed, LibreOffice, Firefox,
> Thunderird etc, stuff that takes ages to build. So now that I'm
> confident that things will work, I can continue to work, from the old
> disk, chroot into the new and continue to install there.
>
> 	Thanks,
> 		Andrew

You can check you have booted with UEFI instead of MBR legacy (emulation) by 
listing the EFI variables:

ls -la /sys/firmware/efi/

If it's empty you have booted in good ol' MBR.

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Regards,
Mick