On 25/12/2020 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot,
Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to
learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start a new thread
tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI
mode properly.
UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant of
fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you don't
already know GRUB, I'd say start with something simpler.
I got the impression that on newer systems, gdisk and fdisk were the
same thing ...
Certainly I moved to gdisk because "fdisk can't handle GPTs", and then
someone said "oh yes it can" so I investigated and oh yes it could. I
still use gdisk, but as I say they now appear to be the same thing.
Cheers,
Wol
