On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:50:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at the > beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32 partition for > /boot, then whatever other partitions are required. > > Neil said above that he doesn't do that; he omits the unformatted > partition, and I believe that's quite popular. I tried following the > same scheme, but that's what caused the difficulties I started this > thread with: on this system I need both those partitions. The system > will not boot without both of them. [1]
[snip] > 1. I remember, dimly, that while commissioning this machine from new, > I had trouble installing and running grub:2. I knew even less about > UEFI systems then, so if I were to try it again now I might find a way. > But I hate the damn thing, so as long as I don't need it it's not > getting near my machines. I thought you were using systemd-boot, not GRUB? GRUB may need the protected MBR space, but I only use GRUB on non-UEFI systems, where the blank partition is needed with GPT partitioning. -- Neil Bothwick It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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