[kwlug-disc] Adventures in dual boot land...

[William Park]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:44:57AM -0500, Chris Irwin wrote:
> UEFI is great. Seriously. It *is* different than what we're used to, but
> BIOS booting was such a pain, particularly when dual booting. Most of that
> is solved with UEFI. No longer do you have to worry about windows "taking
> over", or blowing away GRUB.
> 
> It does take a bit to learn, because it's different than BIOS booting.
> Those differences are mostly good.

For me, UEFI is mostly bad...

    - Boot entries are stored in motherboard's BIOS.  So, when you move
      your harddisk to new motherboard, you can't boot.

    - UEFI uses GPT which puts backup partition table at the end.  Which
      means you can't just dd your disk image anymore.
-- 
William