On Saturday, December 20, 2014 11:10:26 PM behrouz khosravi wrote: > > The advantage of efi over bios is that the boot loader doesn't have to > > embed anything in the mbr, the post mbr gap, or the bios boot > > partition. > > I just wanted to say that there is another advantage too! > MS WIndows7 support booting from GPT partition tables, > only if you are using the UEFI. (I dont know about Windows8) > I wanted to use GPT on a dual boot system, so I enabled UEFI on my laptop, > and I am using GRUB2 as bootloader. > Everything is working great.
Just to add a little extra detail before others run into the same. Not ALL UEFI systems work with MS Windows 7. Without a compatibility part for the VGA-console, the install will fail. -- Joost
