Dan McGhee wrote: > On 12/18/2013 02:08 PM, loki wrote: >> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 09:24 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: >> >>> Are you trying to do this on a UEFI system? >>> >>> Dan >>> >> >> Nope. I'm not even sure that this old rig is EFI capable :) And secondly I'm >> too lazy to learn it since for the servers that I use 4 primary partitions is >> the most I'm going to use and the other gizmos and gadgets that EFI has are >> also overkill. :) And I'm somewhat old school, I don't believe that the >> computer itself should have a full fledged operating system embedded on it. >> I'm from the Kickstart Disk generation. Basic Input Output System, just get >> it >> to the state where the operating system can take the computer over and then >> vanish. But at the end I'm very reluctant to use something that is embedded >> on >> the machine and has the touch of MICROSOFT on it. :p >> > You and I have similar attitudes, esp with regard to the "M-word." :) From > the > research I did I concluded that the UEFI thing is here to stay--doesn't > necessarily mean "secure boot" either. In fact, that's the first thing I > turned > off with my new machine. What I like is not being limited to four primary > partitions.
You can do that in a BIOS based system. You can use GPT without UEFI. I think there may be an issue if you have a boot partition that ends above 2T, but I always recommend a small partition at the beginning for /boot. The trick for grub users is to get it to "look across" the > partitions without having to have a "signed" grub.efi file. And as soon as I > get my LFS system to the point I want to reach, I'm going to do another build > and see if I can make that happen. Doesn't UEFI systems have a 'Legacy' mode where that stuff is not needed? -- Bruce > What else I learned was that UEFI is a manufacturer thing, but secure boot is > the innovation (?) of the "M-word." Go figure. > > Of course, if your "rig" is old, this is not relevant. But as my niece tells > me, "Old is only a number." :) :) > > Dan > > > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
