On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:22:04 +0000, Mick wrote: > The MoBo is capable of booting in CMS mode, but I am not sure if there > are any benefits in creating a 2MB partition for a conventional MBR > bootloader, or I should forego MBR altogether and go directly with a > GPT FAT32 EFI System Partition (ESP). > > If the latter is the way to go and I forget all things I ever learned > about MBR, does the 550MB FAT32 ESP partition have to be at the > beginning of the drive?
Yes, it should be sda1. You can also use this partition as /boot, and should do so if you use Gummiboot. > Is it beneficial to install a Linux boot loader/manager like GRUB2, or > rEFInd, etc., or should I just use the kernel EFI Boot Stub to boot > gentoo with? I use a bootloader, gummiboot, as it makes it easy to select different options when booting. > The PC will single boot in Gentoo, although I may drop in > a sysrescuecd image for recovery purposes and would be nice to be able > to boot this straight off the disk, without having to burn it on a > CDROM. Is it simply a matter of adding the LiveCD iso in the ESP with > a .efi suffix, or will I need to use efibootmgr to inform the UEFI > about *any* kernel images in the ESP other than the default > EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi? I still use GRUB to boot ISO images, and have a sysrescd image in /boot for this. With UEFI, you can have more than one bootloader installed. I hadn't considered the possibility of UEFI booting to an ISO directly, I'd be interested to know if it is possible. > Finally, what's your opinion on 'secure boot'? That the main security is is aimed at is job security for MS employees. I turn it off straight away. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 44: Advanced BASIC
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