I am getting a new laptop from dell that will dual boot windows (in case I need dell maintenance) and gentoo (real work). I have done this often, but there are three new aspects this time.
1. ssd. 2. new udev (/usr part of boot partition?) 3. grub2. My plan 1s to have / + /usr one partition and boot from it. All else (/tmp, /var, /home, /opt) would be lvm2. dracut would not be used. The laptop will have a 256GB ssd. Can I partition it the same as I would have for an hd? Are there extra alignment considerations? The gentoo-wiki page for grub2 mentions an "official article" for grub2 (dev.gentoo.org/~scarabeus/grub-2-guide.xml) that describes both mbr- and efi-based systems. Using efi and gpt have advantages but the configuration described involves an efi partition /boot having a FAT format. I was hoping to avoid dracut and have all of / + /usr on the boot partition. Does this mean I should use the mbr-based installation? Any other tips or sources to read? Thanks in advance, allan
