On 23/09/11 15:50, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-09-23 07:15 +0200, Weaver wrote: > >> That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't >> work off a standard BIOS. You need the UEFI base to handle such things >> as the new 4 TB drives from Seagate and Hitachi now. > > No, you don't. You need GPT, which works fine with a traditional BIOS. > Unless you boot Microsoft operating systems, that is. > > Sven > > I'm pretty sure the last version of Windoof (and the next) can boot GPT. Vistass can read it, but not boot. Dunno about the 64-bit version though - it might boot it. That's not a reason to move to Windoof. And U/EFI is a good reason to run Coreboot (why worry about OS security when untrustable code is running in BIOS/EFI?)
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