Duncan posted on Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:27:41 +0000 as excerpted: > Henry W. Peters posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2013 13:38:58 -0400 as excerpted: > >> One other thing I have been meditating upon, is that I have a UEFI >> bios... (Windows 8), I did install an MBR on the external disk, with >> grub on it... & when I boot, in legacy mode, from it... grub works... >> so thinking I might be able to update grub, after the Gentoo install, & >> (hopefully) use grub to load the Gentoo system... Grub would not >> install in the UEFI, & the directions to boot from it, with Linux, are >> a bit complex for me at this stage... (will try to work that out too, >> eventually). > > You don't mention what version of grub you're talking about. I haven't > used grub's UEFI modes personally (see below), but grub2 is supposed to > fully support it, and definitely CAN install in the UEFI reserved > partition.
... And immediately after sending that, I checked the gentoo-dev list/group (subscribed via gmane.org's list2news service, so it's a newsgroup to me, just as this list is), and find this new thread: Subject: News item: GRUB2 migration [quoting from the body] GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. ------------ Title: GRUB2 migration Author: Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-09-22 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: <sys-boot/grub-1 A newer version of GRUB (sys-boot/grub) is now stable. There are now two available slots: sys-boot/grub:0 - Known as "GRUB Legacy" sys-boot/grub:2 - Known as "GRUB2" [end quote, there's more, including links to migration guides, etc] Here's the gmane web-version archived-message link (there's a link to the topic/thread on the left, if you want to see the full thread): http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/88209 -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
