Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > >
I think it was Frank that posted about Ventoy. When I was installing stuff on the 770T, I used that. I got Knoppix, Ubuntu, Debian, memtest, a couple Gentoo thing, CRC which I think replaced Systemrescue and Systemrescue itself. I really like that thing. It's awesome. Still, when I build the new rig, I'm going to try to make /boot around 6 or 8GBs. That should be big enough for several images and remain large enough as they grow. Options. So many options. lol Dale :-) :-)
