On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, yuri wrote: > If what Ross says is correct, then replacing the drive would require > returning the computer to the manufacturer. If the warrantee is > expired, that could prove very expensive. Yet another reason to hate > UEFI - if this is correct. > > Yuri
I haven't actually wrangled with UEFI and Linux so what I am telling you is all book learning. >From the Wikipedia page; "UEFI does not rely on a working boot sector only, but needs a special partition table referring to a special partition containing a specially located file with a standardized name depending on the actual architecture to boot (\EFI\BOOT\boot[architecture name].efi)." Cheers Ross Drummond _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
