Oh my fucking God

I just spend 6 hours installing gentoo and was just about to install grub and I kept getting an error

couldn't figure out why I was getting an efi error

poked around a bit and found out I had been using legacy boot/bios the whole time and have to do the whole thing over now

pain

>>93031960 (OP)

just reinstall grub for legacy mode?

I thought I would have to redo the partitions? 

Well it is too late anyways I shut the system down to try again tomorrow

>>93031960 (OP)

I spent 8 days installing gentoo and my kernel would not load

not op

I kek'ed

I'm so glad it's no just me. I was 2 years with Ubuntu guhnome and thought I was ready (knowledgeable enough) to bring new life to some old laptops with bodhi Linux and Debian MATE. I'm so beat to shit by Debian I can't believe it. I did my first compile from a tarball (success! -after several hours), and completely failed trying to add additional repositories to Debian. I have WEEKS spent on these 

laptops. I want to just forget Debian and crawl back to Ubuntu but those WEEKS, I can't just give up, can I?

>>93031960 (OP)

I did the same thing with a Lubuntu install, and then ended up hating Lubuntu after all that fucking around. 

I'm not new to this but for some reason I keep telling myself I can do this in 2 or 3 hours NP. It's NEVER taken just 2 or 3 hours.

I believe legacy bios is a bit easier to set up, you don't need the extra partition and can make your main one bootable instead or something like that, costs you some flexibility but it's the type of flexibility only complicated servers use. Some small edits of partitions or partition labels might be needed but you don't need to change the whole partition system to that old one whatever the name was

>>93031960 (OP)

If you're using Gentoo and don't understand how your boot works, it's your own damn fault.



Grub is also completely unnecessary complexity you do not need. This is not Arch. An efistub kernel is all you need to boot, and makes things much simpler and easier to maintain. 

If you want to use Gentoo long-term, you must make your OS as easy to maintain as possible. You need to understand everything or you'll have a bad time.

OP wasn't blaming anyone, Richard. It's just a kick in the nuts when one makes an error like that and discovers it 6 hours in. I bet OP never makes that error again.

qa won

>boot liveguigentoo cd

>Git clone Https//GitHub.com/Oddlama/gentoo-install

>Cd gentoo-install

>./configure

>Set params

>./install

>Confirm

>Go have a cup of tea.

>Nip down shops

>Swing by t'pub, have a cheeky half

>Come back

>Reboot

>Gentoo

>LilyBoot

That's cute as fuck. Is that LILO?

It's just a efistub linux running a custom program in the embedded initramfs.

Gotta do some reading then cause that shit is cute as hell.

>efistub

Not everyone has efi on their machines, grub is still the most versatile.

>Not everyone has efi 

You're running Gentoo on a 15 year old system?

You don't?
