160409 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> I've always used Lilo, which is simple + reliable : >> I never see questions re it here, but there are many re Grub. >> I do use recent hardware, a cutting-edge machine I built 6 mth ago . >> When setting it up, I suppressed UEFI in the BIOS settings : >> isn't that what anyone not running M$ would do ? > I just disabled secure boot, although it's possible to use it with Linux. > However, it would require to manually sign everything from boot loader > to kernel modules, since Gentoo has no infrastructure to do that. > I don't "supress" UEFI, since it's *obviously* so much better than BIOS > and since bootctl (the program formerly known as gummiboot) > it's incredible easy to use. You don't even notice it's there.
Sorry, I meant "suppress secure boot". My mobo doesn't have UEFI. > I believe there are motherboards where you don't have the option > to "supress" UEFI, since they simply don't have BIOS anymore. > Seriously, UEFI is soooo much better. Thanks for the enlightment (smile). Can you or anyone else answer my other question re the origin of the thread ? -- ie is this a revival of not putting /usr on its own partition or is it a new proposal to alter the file system in some other way ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
