On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 19 Dec 2014 15:46:43 Todd Goodman wrote: >> * Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> [141219 10:22]: >> >>> I am trying to find out what is considered good practice as far as >>> UEFI/MBR and boot management goes. >> >> FWIW, I've built recent machines with UEFI/GPT but I mostly build recent >> machines using BIOS-mode/GPT or MBR. It usually depends on how well the >> mobo I'm using works with either. >> >> Some of the mobos I've used have some seriously crummy UEFI >> implementations that look like they installed Windows and that worked so >> didn't bother testing any further. >> >> I don't dual-boot windows so BIOS/GPT works OK (I believe windows still >> assumes UEFI == GPT and BIOS == MBR but I don't know.) > > Are you saying that there is no benefit in moving to UEFI for Linux usage, if > the MoBo can boot in conventional BIOS mode?
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.
