Re: UEFI

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Slavko <linux@slavino.sk> wrote:
> Dňa Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:49:12 +0800 Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com>
> napísal:
>> On 09/07/2014, Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could
>>> be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my
>>> laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read).
>>
>> It is my understanding (and, once again, I am no expert), that two
>> distinct advantages of a UEFI/GPT system ofer what it replaced, are
>> that no differentiation exists, between primary and other partitions,
>> and, a UEFI/GPT system, can have up to 128 partitions.
>
> I am no expert too :-)
>
> The advantages mentioned by you are true (of course). Only small note,
> that the partition advantage is GPT (partition table) property, and to
> you can use GPT, you need UEFI, because old BIOS cannot work with GPT,
> not the UEFI itself.

You can use bios with a gpt-labelled disk but if you do so you won't
have an mbr gap so you'll need a bios boot (or bios_grub in parted
speak) partition for grub's core.img.