Ooops, the Flash-infested Asus site just loaded. EFI is listed as a feature of their E-350 "deluxe" (must be expensive) motherboard:
EFI BIOS (EZ Mode)- Flexible & Easy BIOS Interface I guess I'll wait for this to arrive in our shores. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Nexus Droid <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the link. It's unfortunate that among motherboard > "manufacturers", only Intel appears to be advertising EFI capability. > I just emailed Gigabyte and they confirmed that their boards cannot > yet boot greater than 2.2 GB but promised they are looking to add this > feature in a future upgrade. But how they can replace the BIOS with > EFI firmware I don't know. Their E-350 motherboard is equipped with 2 > x 16 Mbit dual BIOS. > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jimmy Lim <[email protected]> wrote: >> Well, If you want 3tb as your boot drive, you need a mobo that supports efi. >> >> Here's the explanation: >> >> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/%5Btitle-raw%5D_0 >> >> Jimmy >> >> On Feb 17, 2011 5:29 PM, "Nexus Droid" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm a bit confused about the requirements for booting Linux using the >>> 3TB hard drives that are now coming out. I understand that they can be >>> used as secondary (non-boot) drives without any problems. From what >>> I've read online, it appears that you need a motherboard with EFI >>> rather than plain BIOS. Is this an absolute requirement, with no >>> bootloader workaround for any non-compliant motherboards? >>> >>> On a side note, are there any non-Intel branded motherboards that come >>> with EFI? I'm intrigued by the PDF manual I downloaded of MSI's new >>> AMD Fusion mini-ITX board E350IA-E45: >>> >>> http://www.msi.com/product/mb/E350IA-E45.html#/?div=Manual >>> >>> On page 22 of the multi-lingual manual is the following "BIOS" option: >>> >>> Built-in EFI Shell >>> Use this item to enter the EFI Shell. >>> >>> Moreover there is a screenshot on page 21 confirming this. The option >>> can be found in the "Save & Exit" tab, beneath the section heading >>> "Boot Override" and above possibly another option "UEFI: USB Flash >>> Disk 1.11" . >>> >>> The BIOS update comes in at a fairly large 4MB (after unzipping). >>> Opening the BIOS file in Emacs and doing a search for EFI shows >>> human-readable text like "EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL" or >>> "EFI_VOLUME_CORRUPTED". >>> >>> Strangely, the EFI support isn't advertised in the above MSI web page. >>> _________________________________________________ >>> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >>> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
