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On a modern UEFI system you actually get provided with an API that can do all that for you, though only FAT32 partitions are supported for the FS out of the box
by zaarn 8y ago
On a modern UEFI system you actually get provided with an API that can do all that for you, though only FAT32 partitions are supported for the FS out of the box (you can load your own drivers for more).
If your boot partition is FAT32, UEFI makes things much much simpler.
- jrockway 8y agoTrue. And I think that's more than adequate for your homebrew OS. (Which can just have a second stage if you really need to boot off of an encrypted RAID-5 partition connected to a custom storage controller.)