On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> 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. If you have "secure boot", you have UEFI. You can't have it without.
