On Saturday, December 20, 2014 11:10:26 PM behrouz khosravi wrote:
The advantage of efi over bios is that the boot loader doesn't have to
embed anything in the mbr, the post mbr gap, or the bios boot
partition.
I just wanted to say that there is another advantage too!
MS WIndows7 support
Just to add a little extra detail before others run into the same.
Not ALL UEFI systems work with MS Windows 7. Without a compatibility part
for
the VGA-console, the install will fail.
I didnt know that. Thanks for the info.
On 21 December 2014 15:28:26 CET, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Just to add a little extra detail before others run into the same.
Not ALL UEFI systems work with MS Windows 7. Without a compatibility
part
for
the VGA-console, the install will fail.
I didnt know that.
On 20 December 2014 02:03:41 GMT+00:00, Sid S r03...@gmail.com wrote:
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
On 12/19/2014 07:22 AM, Mick wrote:
I'll be taking my time to google, read and make appropriate selections, so
please bear with me while I start relevant threads as necessary to complement
my sparse knowledge in these topics. Starting from the top, with this thread
I am trying to find out
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Old dogs and new tricks springs to mind. I am building a new PC and what with
UEFI, APUs and SSDs, it feels like that the world has moved a long way since
the last time I had to install gentoo.
I'll be taking my time to
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 19 Dec 2014 15:46:43 Todd Goodman wrote:
* Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [141219 10:22]:
I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as
UEFI/MBR and boot management goes.
FWIW, I've built
The advantage of efi over bios is that the boot loader doesn't have to
embed anything in the mbr, the post mbr gap, or the bios boot
partition.
I just wanted to say that there is another advantage too!
MS WIndows7 support booting from GPT partition tables,
only if you are using the UEFI. (I
Old dogs and new tricks springs to mind. I am building a new PC and what with
UEFI, APUs and SSDs, it feels like that the world has moved a long way since
the last time I had to install gentoo.
I'll be taking my time to google, read and make appropriate selections, so
please bear with me
* Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [141219 10:22]:
[SNIP]
I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as UEFI/MBR
and boot management goes.
FWIW, I've built recent machines with UEFI/GPT but I mostly build recent
machines using BIOS-mode/GPT or MBR. It usually depends on how
On Friday 19 Dec 2014 15:46:43 Todd Goodman wrote:
* Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [141219 10:22]:
[SNIP]
I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as
UEFI/MBR and boot management goes.
FWIW, I've built recent machines with UEFI/GPT but I mostly build recent
* Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [141219 11:13]:
On Friday 19 Dec 2014 15:46:43 Todd Goodman wrote:
* Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [141219 10:22]:
[SNIP]
I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as
UEFI/MBR and boot management goes.
FWIW, I've built
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:22:04 +, 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).
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.
Typically one takes the contents
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Sid S r03...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, I am kind of surprised people are still having problems with UEFI.
It's necessary to turn SecureBoot off, but otherwise I just got everything to
work.
I've yet to do an EFI install, but presumably you could either sign
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