Strange behaviour in Disk Druid

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 16:43 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> > If you look around in the boot menu / BIOS configuration you may find an
> > option to configure this, but as I said, it's different on all systems.
> > On mine, for instance, the boot menu lists media that support EFI
> > booting twice, one of the entries boots that medium via native EFI and
> > the other does it via BIOS emulation. The default is BIOS emulation, on
> > my system: I have to explicitly pick the EFI entry if I want to do a
> > native EFI boot.
> 
> Well if the manufacturer wants a default of EFI, who am I to argue?  :)
> 
> Um, I grew up with BIOS (well really before BIOS, I go back to teletypes 
> at 55 baud and GE Mark IVs and real Dartmouth BASIC), and EFI is 'new' 
> to me.  Can you point me to a basic intro to it?

Wikipedia's article is pretty solid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface

the official site is:

http://www.uefi.org/home/
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