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Took one look at Coreboot/Libreboot a while back, and decided I'll go the "classic" BIOS-modding route (which I have a lot more experience with) instead. I DO
by userbinator 2y ago
Took one look at Coreboot/Libreboot a while back, and decided I'll go the "classic" BIOS-modding route (which I have a lot more experience with) instead.
I DO NOT WANT TO ONLY HAVE MBR BOOTING
Incidentally, I'd consider MBR boot an advantage compared to UEFI. As Linus says, it's "this other Intel brain-damage".
- zamadatix 2y agoDon't you need UEFI boot for GPT booting >2 TB drives? That always seemed like the most practical advantage of UEFI+GPT to me.
- userbinator 2y agoTechnically not, as MBR "legacy" boot just loads the first sector (MBR) of the selected boot device into memory and jumps to it, and BIOSes with Int13 Extensions (mid-90s!) already allowed accessing disks with up to 2^64 sectors. There's also "MBR the partitioning scheme", which does have a limit of 2^32 sectors or 2TB, but that's not exactly the same as "MBR the boot method".
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- ahartmetz 2y agoYeah, I know BIOS is full of hacks... but UEFI feels as elegant and necessary as that 500 MB printer driver.