Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware
On 23/09/11 15:50, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-09-23 07:15 +0200, Weaver wrote:
>
>> That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't
>> work off a standard BIOS. You need the UEFI base to handle such things
>> as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now.
>
> No, you don't. You need GPT, which works fine with a traditional BIOS.
> Unless you boot Microsoft operating systems, that is.
>
> Sven
>
>
I'm pretty sure the last version of Windoof (and the next) can boot GPT.
Vistass can read it, but not boot. Dunno about the 64-bit version though
- it might boot it.
That's not a reason to move to Windoof. And U/EFI is a good reason to
run Coreboot (why worry about OS security when untrustable code is
running in BIOS/EFI?)
Cheers
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