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    [–] db2 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    GPT you mean. Linux can boot in a non-EFI machine that has GPT disk partitions.. Windows can't because it's dumb.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yes but by doing so you're using the same principles as MBR boot. There's still this coveted boot sector Windows will attempt to take back every time.

    What's nice about EFI in particular is that the motherboard loads the file from the ESP, and can load multiple of them and add them to its boot menu. Depending on the motherboard, even browse the ESP and manually go execute a .efi from it.

    Which in turn makes it a lot less likely to have bootloader fuckups because you basically press F12 and pick GRUB/sd-boot and you're back in. Previously the only fix would be boot USB and reinstall syslinux/GRUB.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

    I just had a bug on both of my EFI computers where they wouldn't boot any more and a grub-install fixed it, apparently the regular update processes do not update the version on the ESP for some reason and my assumption is that it became incompatible with the modules in /boot

    Adding an EFI Boot Entry for netboot.xyz after it happened on the first one really helped fix the second one though.

    [–] frokie 19 points 1 year ago

    I’m not having an AI boot my computer!

    [–] droans 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    GPT is a partitioning table. EFI is a bootloader firmware interface.

    [–] db2 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    MBR is also a partitioning table.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    No I mean EFI. It is a much simpler than MBR.