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