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Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.
Date	2018-09-24 21:30 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 02:11:44PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>You might think that from the name of the link, but the page fails to
>live up to its promise. Some quotations:
>
>"BIOS lives inside a chip on your computers motherboard. Inside the
>BIOS, is a small section called “MBR”, which stands for “Master Boot
>Record” and is often called “Boot record” or “Boot Sector” or
>something like it."
>
>"The BIOS/MBR is a TINY slice at the BEGINNING of your hard disk that
>gets run as soon as you startup your computer."
>
>"If you must have the improved UEFI/GPT, then either buy a new computer
>(easier) or check if your existing computer is compatible with
>UEFI/GPT, and have fun trying to convert it.

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

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Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-19 17:00 +0200
  Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-09-19 17:30 +0200
    Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-19 18:00 +0200
  Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-19 23:40 +0200
    Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-20 09:00 +0200
      Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-20 20:30 +0200
        [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-21 08:40 +0200
          Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-21 20:30 +0200
            Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-22 07:00 +0200
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-22 10:10 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2018-09-22 10:50 +0200
            And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Wayne Sallee <Wayne@WayneSallee.com> - 2018-09-23 17:00 +0200
              Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-09-23 18:20 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Wayne Sallee <Wayne@WayneSallee.com> - 2018-09-23 23:30 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-09-24 03:00 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-24 21:20 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-09-24 21:30 +0200
                Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-09-27 15:10 +0200
              Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-23 20:40 +0200

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