Booting a computr in EFI mode.

Fri Jan 13 21:23:21 UTC 2012

On 01/13/2012 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote:
>> On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to
>>> boot a computer in EFI mode.
>> I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it. Worked fine, not sure
>> what you mean.
>>
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> It is good to know that Fedora can boot using the standard booting
> system.But EFI is designs to use instead of BIOS and an MBR, a special
> partition called a GPT that the system boots from. GPT based systems can
> for example use more that 4 standard partitions and does not use
> extended partitions. It supports several bootloaders other than BIOS.
>
> For more information look at the December 2011 and January 2012 issues
> of Linux Journal.
> or:
> http://www.uefi.org.
I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting.


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