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   Carver Harrison to muta...@gmail.com   
   Re: BIOS vs UEFI   
   28 Oct 21 17:13:51   
   
   From: ch@dorper.me   
      
   On 10/20/2021 7:42 PM, 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.   
      
   This is why I still use BIOS. No need for a boot partition. Also easier   
   to use because with UEFI you will end up writing your own FSD anyways   
   unless you want you be stuck using FAT32.   
      
   Carver   
   Dorper - https://dorper.me   
      
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