Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-06 Thread Sam James
> On 2 May 2020, at 21:30, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > > Hey all, > > our installation handbook is right now something of a mess (in particular > regarding partitioning, bootloader, gpt/uefi, ...) > > I'm hereby volunteering to clean things up. But - I'll go the brutal way: > > * Legacy boo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-03 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi Andreas, > * Legacy boot and MBR will get kicked out. * > This is your chance to protest or support. Please keep. I have several systems with legacy boot and know many people, who prefer/need this too. -- Best, Jonas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-03 Thread Joshua Kinard
On 5/2/2020 16:30, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Hey all, > > our installation handbook is right now something of a mess (in particular > regarding partitioning, bootloader, gpt/uefi, ...) > > I'm hereby volunteering to clean things up. But - I'll go the brutal way: > > * Legacy boot and MBR will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-03 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
On 2020-05-02 22:30, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > * Legacy boot and MBR will get kicked out. * > > This is your chance to protest or support. *holdingupprotestsign* Why? There are still a lot of people out there who don't have (U)EFI or don't use GPT. Please keep this information or share why you

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-02 Thread Aisha Tammy
On 5/2/20 4:30 PM, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > Hey all, > > our installation handbook is right now something of a mess (in particular > regarding partitioning, bootloader, gpt/uefi, ...) > > I'm hereby volunteering to clean things up. Thanks a lot for your work :) But - I'll go the brutal wa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-02 Thread Alexey Mishustin
сб, 2 мая 2020 г. в 23:51, Dale : > My system is not to old and would need legacy as a option as well. I > actually picked one that didn't do EFI and such. I'd be fine with a link to > another page tho. It may make it easier for everyone else while those of us > with legacy can still get to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-02 Thread Dale
Georg Rudoy wrote: > On 02.05.2020 at 20:30 user Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: >> I'm hereby volunteering to clean things up. But - I'll go the brutal way: >> >> * Legacy boot and MBR will get kicked out. * >> >> This is your chance to protest or support. > I just installed Gentoo last month on an AMD6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-02 Thread Georg Rudoy
On 02.05.2020 at 20:30 user Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: > I'm hereby volunteering to clean things up. But - I'll go the brutal way: > > * Legacy boot and MBR will get kicked out. * > > This is your chance to protest or support. I just installed Gentoo last month on an AMD64 machine that was booted i

[gentoo-dev] Cleaning up the installation handbook (Legacy boot / MBR / ...)

2020-05-02 Thread Andreas K . Hüttel
Hey all, our installation handbook is right now something of a mess (in particular regarding partitioning, bootloader, gpt/uefi, ...) I'm hereby volunteering to clean things up. But - I'll go the brutal way: * Legacy boot and MBR will get kicked out. * This is your chance to protest or suppor