Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2017 schrieb Tobias Hunger: > On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Didier Kryn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then maybe I misunderstood the reason for EFI. > > UEFI is a huge step forward in pretty much all areas and makes booting > both simpler and more powerful. > > Grub on BIOS basically works like this: the one MBR is read by BIOS > and executed (512 bytes!). That contains code to chain load some more > code (usually from a fixed set of sectors on disk!). That is phase 1 > of the boot loader. That has enough smarts to find a hard-coded > partition and read phase 2 from there. Phase 2 will then load a ton of > modules and some configuration files and do the actual work. > > With UEFI the firmware just loads a efi binary with everything:-) MUCH > simpler. > > UEFI has a couple more features: > > * UEFI allows for better hardware support (graphical login at full > resolution, mouse support, RAID drivers, etc.) > * UEFI allows for more security with secure boot. E.g. my thinkpad > *only* boots things that I have signed with my key. > * UEFI allows for different OSes living next to each other peacefully, > without the constant fight over who writes the MBR and with that > defines the boot loader.
You forgot to mention that UEFI is the best code in the world written by the the best of the best and therefore absolutely secure. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
