On Wednesday 09 July 2014 15.53:22 Bzzzz wrote: > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read).
AFAIK it could be usefull for *very* big disks (but I can't see their use on a laptop). Other than that, I can see only multiboot systems (Hackintoshes need it). I don't really know about Win8 - that I don't have or use. My undestanding is that *pre-installed* Windows 8 require UEFI & secure boot. But I once downloaded a test version of Win 8 Enterprise (free from M$) and it installed perfectly (well... as perfectly as Windows can) on the IDE harddisk of an older dual-core machine, with, as far as I know, no UEFI (at least none I could turn on/off). Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
