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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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