On 2021-03-07 at 19:04, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 12:59 PM, deloptes wrote: >> IMO UEFI makes sense when you have notebook with secureboot and probably >> dual boot with windows. >> For the home server or PC with Linux only ... IMO it is a waste. > > I can see how GPT labels would be useful for system drives, but I use > BIOS/MBR because it is the lowest common denominator and I can move > system drives between machines of varying age. That'll probably stop working past a certain point, at least for some machines. On recent Intel chipsets, Dell has stopped supporting booting from internal hard drives except in UEFI/GPT mode (as in, they no longer offer a setting for it, and their boot-device selection menus won't let you do it), and I gather that Intel's newer chipsets are going to stop including support for the UEFI components that permit MBR-based boot in the relatively-near future (if they haven't in fact done that already). At which point you'll need to maintain two categories of system drives: ones which can work on older machines, prior to that dropping of support, and ones which can work on newer machines, subsequent to the addition of UEFI/GPT booting. Isn't progress fun? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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