On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:24:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Do you mean booting from the ISO images? That's a GRUB thing, it > > doesn't matter how it is loaded, EFI or MBR. > > > > However, being able to do away with GRUB is, to me, a bigger benefit > > than not being able to boot ISOs is a drawback. Use either > > systemd-boot (it doesn't need systemd) or rEFInd.
> On my main rig, BIOS type, in my /boot I have memtest. Grub adds a > entry for it. I guess I could also but Knoppix or something in there as > well. I was just wondering if that is still a option with efi. I'd > think it is. After all, it's like like being able to boot either Linux > or windoze. Lots of people dual boot and I'm sure efi hasn't changed > that. Oh yes, you can boot memtest because that's a ramdisk image, it's only ISOs that are restricted to Grub. Having said that, many live distros can be booted from any bootloader if you copy the files from the ISO. I always have SystemRescue in my /boot partition. -- Neil Bothwick Linux users do it without paying a Bill
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