Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:38:00 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:26:27 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Do I really need an image on an USBstick to boot into UEFI mode > > just to setup a system to boot into UEFI mode? > > Yes. The bootloader needs access to the EFI variables to

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...

2020-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:26:27 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Do I really need an image on an USBstick to boot into UEFI mode > just to setup a system to boot into UEFI mode? Yes. The bootloader needs access to the EFI variables to set itself up and those are only present when booting with EFI.

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...

2020-04-06 Thread tuxic
On 04/06 03:35, Andrea Conti wrote: > > Then there was something mentioned about namespaces, which should > > be allocated smaller than the physical drive > > Is this really needed - just to boot from this SSD? > > NVMe namespaces are an abstraction layer that allows a controller to present > its

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...

2020-04-06 Thread Andrea Conti
Then there was something mentioned about namespaces, which should be allocated smaller than the physical drive Is this really needed - just to boot from this SSD? NVMe namespaces are an abstraction layer that allows a controller to present its connected storage as a number of independent

[gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...

2020-04-06 Thread tuxic
Hi, I read quite some stuff of the more general kind about NVMe, the technoloy etc...and would not state to be sure of haveing understood all that ... Currently I have installed (physically) a NVMe drive, which is unaltered and in the state as the company has delivered it. This drive should