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 C5CE3138E20 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:40:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BDBEE0ADC; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46C8BE0AD1 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DBEB33FB5F for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:40:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 3.298 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.298 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.246, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2=1.539, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=0.865, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.552, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WIyL3B7y62U4 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:40:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A1DE333F923 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGGkB-00075I-HH for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:39:59 +0100 Received: from 216.240.144.46 ([216.240.144.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:39:59 +0100 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.144.46 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:39:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers (?) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:39:51 -0800 Message-ID: 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-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.240.144.46 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 X-Archives-Salt: 6234ed3c-c6c6-4977-af60-40c48a40b00d X-Archives-Hash: 8f768702026ce04c6e1db969e2b43354 I just spotted that phrase in the sourceforge newsletter: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ and it seems to me like an oxymoron. If that phrase makes logical sense then my definitions of 'BIOS' and 'EFI' need the latest updates :) Until now I thought that EFI is a recent replacement for "BIOS" based machines. Can anyone clarify the linguistics involved here? Thanks