On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 09:29:42 GMT Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 20/11/18 17:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:51:34 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > >> I just have this little niggling doubt, probably baseless, in > >> > >> the back of my mind that there maybe something that may cause a problem > >> for the newly built stuff due to it not being natively booted in UEFI or > >> something like that when it was built. > > > > The only issue you're likely to face is setting up booting from the SSD. > > You need to be booted via UEFI to set up UEFI booting, but you can do > > that from your SysResCd stick. > > The SSD is up and running. I get Gentoo booting to a console and I'm > now in the process of getting stuff installed, LibreOffice, Firefox, > Thunderird etc, stuff that takes ages to build. So now that I'm > confident that things will work, I can continue to work, from the old > disk, chroot into the new and continue to install there. > > Thanks, > Andrew
You can check you have booted with UEFI instead of MBR legacy (emulation) by listing the EFI variables: ls -la /sys/firmware/efi/ If it's empty you have booted in good ol' MBR. -- Regards, Mick
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