oops - I was wrong. I misread the UEFI web site.
I was wrong that it costs $2500/year in fees to UEFI group to develop for
UEFI+GPT. it doesn't cost any money.
The UEFI+GPT Adopter gets a complementary membership. just check it out at
http://www.uefi.org/join/ and specs are free for downlo
type coming to C++.
Jim Michaels
From: Eric Auer
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] newer motherboards and [U]EFI, large-sectored
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Hi Chri
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From: Eric Auer
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; freedos-ker...@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] newer motherboards and [U]EFI, large-sectored
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Hi Christian,
I remember
Hi Christian,
I remember that eltorito.sys tries to autodetect whether the BIOS
lets you access the CD/DVD as 2048 byte per sector drive or rather
as 512 bytes per sector, so the idea of different sized sectors is
not new... Floppy supported 128 to 1024 bytes, for example... Yes,
FreeDOS only sup
> LARGE SECTOR DRIVES: There is also the issue of large-sectored disks
> coming after the 2TB drive, if anyone plans on purchasing one of those.
> by large-sectored I mean drives that have 1024, 2048, 4096 byte sectors.
> Microsoft has warned of this. large-sectored drives allow you to use
[U]EFI+GPT: There is a Microsoft article about switching motherboard mfrs from
BIOS to [U]EFI, and possibly about removing BIOS emulation. EFI uses GPT (see
wikipedia) for partitioning and only includes MBR as a "signature" to show that
the GPT is there, and for some compatibility with older pr
