> > > 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. > > I just wanted to say that there is another advantage too! MS WIndows7 support booting from GPT partition tables, only if you are using the UEFI. (I dont know about Windows8) I wanted to use GPT on a dual boot system, so I enabled UEFI on my laptop, and I am using GRUB2 as bootloader. Everything is working great.
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