On Mon, 27 Aug 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
UEFI has all the same BIOS options as in the past, but these new eZbIoS screens are so complicated I tend to avoid them like the plague...... so yes, you can set it to boot USB first.
Good to know.
Ben, What I've learned so far: 1.) I found my way around the pretty screen to the Boot Option menu. The only two choices are SSD and Optical drive. I found nothing to allow me to add a USB at the top of the boot option list. 2.) When the distribution DVD loads I boot as root and select cfdisk. I elect to use the GPT type. Only the SSD is presented by cfdisk; after I learn what to do with this one I'll see if I can manually run 'cfdisk /dev/sdb' to partition the hard drive. 3.) Using BIOS/MBR/and lilo I would create sda1 and mount / on it. Then add a 100M sda2 mounted as /boot. I read somewhere this morning that the boot partition should be the first one on the disk. If so, do I want the type to be 'linux' or 'linux boot'? 4.) Is the GPT/UEFI mkinitrd command different from 'mkinitrd -c -k <kernel number> -m <file system type for modules> -f <file system type> -r <boot partition>? A couple of examples I found on web blogs suggest they need a long string of module names. 5.) Apparently elilo goes in /boot/elilo/elilo (or something close to that). Is the equivalent of /etc/lilo.conf in that same subdirectory? After configuring the conf file do I run /sbin/lilo, /sbin/elilo, or do something else? Still much to learn, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
