On Wednesday 20 May 2015 10:23:55 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can > > handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't > > want to change too many things at once. By which I mean that I'm going > > to try btrfs (my fingers will learn how to type that one day), and I > > might go for GPT if it's not going to cause a lot of trouble, but I > > really don't want to have to wrestle with grub-2 at the same time. > > Maybe later. > > > > So, GPT with legacy grub, anyone? > > It should do, as long as you create the BIOS Boot partition at the start > of the drive. It shouldn't care what the BIOS is trying to load.
OK; I'll try it then. Thanks. > But if it's a new system, doesn't it use UEFI? In which case, grubosaurus > won't work but you can avoid GRUB2 by using Gummiboot, which is even simpler > that GRUB<1. No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB? -- Rgds Peter
