I found this very interesting and informative.
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature...-Your/ba-p/198
http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature...-Your/ba-p/198
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Re: Informative article about UEFI
Nice managerial summary of the UEFI.
One aspect of it is the GUID Partition Table, GPT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
Traditional BIOS/MBR can only handle disk sizes up to 2.1 TB (as the article says). Whereas GPT does not have that limitation. GRUB 2 can handle GPT (GRUB Legacy can not).
My "GRUB 2: A Guide For Users" has a brief, toy presentation of some of this.
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3117206.0
Scroll to Reply #1, and see the section:
GPT: GUID Partition Table
... for Kubuntu 9.10 [or any Kubuntu version] and GRUB 2
=> Overcoming the "2 TB disk size limit" associated with the conventional MBR
=> Get rid of the Extended partition with its linked list of Logical partitions
(Have as many partitions as you want)
=> Testing GRUB 2 on your GPT-partitioned flash drive
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Re: Informative article about UEFI
the whole bit about BIOS not working w/ GUID is incorrect. i have a machine w/ GPT part table the BIOS boots the disk just file, WINDOWS does not work w/ GPT disks (iirc this includes 7 )Mark Your Solved Issues [SOLVED]
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Issue is disk size. BIOS good only for less than 2.1 TB (addressable).An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles BukowskiComment
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I have been reading a lot of talk going around about how Microsoft may use UEFI to prevent the end user from installing any operating system on their computer except a Windows operating system. They can do this by requiring the computer manufactures to only include the signing key provided by MS and disabling the ability of the end user to change the setting that activates the secure boot feature. those of us that build our own systems would probably not have a problem, but if you want to install Linux on a computer that came with Windows 8 installed on a UEFI computer, you may not be able to do so. MS strikes again.
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