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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:29:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2575926.mvXUDI8C0e@peak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+eeeLpLMYBed5D-NPs-iNFDcLBNjJC23-q9RjdesOC=5cw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 18:56:37 GMT Mark Knecht wrote:

> Are you possibly conflating BIOS which is computer code in ROM on the
> motherboard and what the CPU runs on power up with the MBR which resides on
> the hard drive you are booting from?

No, I just wanted to distinguish the old-style boot method from UEFI.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-24  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-22 12:58 [gentoo-user] Big USB disks Peter Humphrey
2020-12-22 15:32 ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-22 16:36   ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-22 16:48     ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-22 18:11       ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-23  9:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2020-12-23 18:25   ` Peter Humphrey
2020-12-23 18:56     ` Mark Knecht
2020-12-23 19:25       ` Michael
2020-12-24  9:29       ` Peter Humphrey [this message]

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