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> There's no reason these days something like an efi partition couldn't be put in flash next to the firmware, cheap. SSDs on the other hand are still expensive
by NeutronBoy 9y ago
> There's no reason these days something like an efi partition couldn't be put in flash next to the firmware, cheap. SSDs on the other hand are still expensive, after many years I was just able to afford a 512GB.
Unless you want to switch your HDD to another computer and have it boot properly?
- mixmastamyk 9y agoThat doesn't happen very often, and when it does you could copy the bootloader as well. Probably each OS should have a copy of it, for recovery purposes.
- josteink 9y agoSo now your computer needs to figure out if it should boot the bootloader either from firmware OR from disk. How should it know that? What would be a 100% reliable way to determine this? And if there is a conflict (because now there can be conflicts. Oh boy!)... How should it be resolved? Again, this is a source of even more complexity. All in the name of the "simple" solution you wanted. Just because a few MBs on disk. Can't you see where this is heading? Do you really think this is worth all that extra bullshit? While UEFI is clearly over-engineered in many aspects, what you're asking for is under-engineering. And we all know that leads to nasty stuff down the road too.
- mixmastamyk 9y ago>So now your computer needs to figure out if it should boot the bootloader either from firmware OR from disk. That's not what I wrote, pls read again.