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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks
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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.

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Regards,
Peter.