From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5E71389E2 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EB57E0AE7; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 753ACE0A7F for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.136] (helo=smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2eqJ-00015J-3S for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:38:35 +0100 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Y2eqI-0006IE-UG for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:38:35 +0100 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D45CD4B for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:38:25 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:38:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1765281.VcdU6uoP21@andromeda> Organization: Antarean User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <201412191522.14063.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-spambar: --- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -3.6 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.363 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: bc0236fc-911b-4a39-aba1-41f37a9f3176 X-Archives-Hash: ef32254c6abdd3a05df48cba9d1b468d On Saturday, December 20, 2014 11:10:26 PM behrouz khosravi wrote: > > The advantage of efi over bios is that the boot loader doesn't have to > > embed anything in the mbr, the post mbr gap, or the bios boot > > partition. > > I just wanted to say that there is another advantage too! > MS WIndows7 support booting from GPT partition tables, > only if you are using the UEFI. (I dont know about Windows8) > I wanted to use GPT on a dual boot system, so I enabled UEFI on my laptop, > and I am using GRUB2 as bootloader. > Everything is working great. Just to add a little extra detail before others run into the same. Not ALL UEFI systems work with MS Windows 7. Without a compatibility part for the VGA-console, the install will fail. -- Joost