On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Bardur Arantsson <s...@scientician.net> wrote: > On 2014-12-16 20:40, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: >> I had to use MBR on a relatively recent machine because the >> supposedly-UEFI firmware refused to even recognise GPT disks, let >> alone boot from them. It's still relevant. > > Interesting. Care to name-and-shame said firmware? > > (I don't necessarily think it influences the decision, even so. Surely > the Beginner's Guide should be optimized for the common case rather than > edge cases, as yours probably was?)
It was a bottom-of-the-line Hewlett-Packard mini-tower — one of the very last models that still shipped with Windows 7 as an option. Given how many people are still using Windows 7 and might want to upgrade to Linux rather than (shudder) Windows 8, I don't think that's an uncommon case at all. ~Celti
