On Wednesday 21 Oct 2015 14:29:24 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:23:46 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > "Modern" UEFI firmware not reporting such errors, if such be the case, > > would be one of the reasons for me to depise UEFI as I do. > > I can't see that being true. > > > Why do I > > > > need UEFI? A traditional BIOS can boot my machine just fine, and the > > sole purpose of UEFI seems to be to prevent OS's which aren't Microsoft > > Windows from booting, and to brick certain Samsung laptops. > > You seem to be confusing UEFI with Secure Boot. > > For me, the greatest benefit of UEFI is that I no longer have to deal > with GRUB.
Or MBR's limitation of not being able to boot from disks >2TB. PS. A bit [O/T] but has anyone used Coreboot and how did it compare to UEFI? -- Regards, Mick
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