My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before.
I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity, and "burned" it to a USB stick with dd. However the wiki page "UEFI_Dual_boot_with_Windows_7/8" says to use a system rescue CD. Is that required or can I use the minimal installation CD? 2. The handbook, when discussing Booting the installation CD, says Important When installing Gentoo with the purpose of using the UEFI interface instead of BIOS, it is recommended to boot with UEFI immediately. If not, then it might be necessary to create a bootable UEFI USB stick (or other medium) once before finalizing the Gentoo Linux installation. I don't understand what I am to do? Must I change the USB stick to somehow specify UEFI? Or will the laptop firmware ask me whether to boot UEFI? Or something else? thanks, allan
