On 24 Dec 2009, at 21:27, Mattias Pantzare <pant...@ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
An EFI label isn't "OS specific formatting"!
It is. Not all OS will read an EFI label.
You misunderstood the concept of OS specific, I feel. EFI is indeed
OS
independent; however, that doesn't necesssarily imply that all OSs
can read
EFI disks. My Commodore 128D could boot CP/M but couldn't
understand FAT32 -
that doesn't mean that therefore FAT32 isn't OS independent either.
On a PC EFI is very OS specific as most OS on that platform does not
support EFI.
Still false, I'm afraid. There is nothing OS specific about EFI,
regardless of whether any given OS supports EFI or not. Nor does it
need to be a "PC" - I have several Mac PPCs that can read EFI
partitioned disks (as well as some Intel ones). These can also be read
by other systems that understand EFI partitioned disks.
Alex
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