From: | Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net> | ||
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To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo? | ||
Date: | Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:27:39 | ||
Message-Id: | 20110926222603.09479341@toxic.dbnet | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo? by Mick |
1 | >I am assuming that unlike the old days when I used to boot Linux on |
2 | >PCs using a floppy with SmartBootManager, now we'll need to generate |
3 | >some key/hash for our freshly compiled kernel, then add it to the BIOS |
4 | >firmware and flash the BIOS with it before we are able to boot into it? |
5 | > |
6 | >Is it more complicated than that? |
7 | |
8 | how are you going to write to the bios if it doesn't let you? |
9 | |
10 | maybe you are determined enough to manually flash the chip every time |
11 | you update grub but i think thats a buzzkill for >90% of the users ;) |
Subject | Author |
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo? | Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> |
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Should I be worried that I won't be able to dual boot in Gentoo? | Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> |