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   Branimir Maksimovic to muta...@gmail.com   
   Re: BIOS vs UEFI   
   21 Oct 21 01:20:05   
   
   From: branimir.maksimovic@icloud.com   
      
   On 2021-10-20, muta...@gmail.com  wrote:   
   > It seems to me that the BIOS concept of reading the   
   > first sector of the disk into memory and immediately   
   > executing it, from offset 0, is a lot cleaner than the   
   > UEFI concept of requiring a FAT-formatted disk with   
   > subdirectories.   
   >   
   > If you're going to go for the latter option of a FAT-formatted   
   > disk, shouldn't it be something internal to the computer, on   
   > a flash drive, that results in loading the first sector from the hard   
   > disk and executing it, but perhaps in PM32 or LM64 instead   
   > of RM16?   
   >   
   > Passing the UEFI data structure to the code on the first   
   > sector would seem to be more appropriate than doing   
   > interrupts though.   
   >   
   > BFN. Paul.   
   UEFI sucks as it forces FAT32 partition and Windows executable...   
      
      
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