Out of Space

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 10 August 2016 07:02:49 Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 09.08.2016, 22:33 +0200 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> > hi,
> > On Di, 2016-08-09 at 20:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> ...
>
> oh, and who brought up that myth that the BIOS would have anything to
> do with being able to GPT boot or not? 
>
> it definitely has not ... thats a bootloader thing ...
>
> ciao
> 	oli

Oli, I think that needs an explanation.

As the first point I''l raise my hand & wave madly on mention of, it IS 
the bios that starts the boot loader, presumably from whatever passes as 
the agreed on starting sector we usually call the MBR, and its name is 
not germain to the discussion other than serving as the anchoring 
starting point in the boot process.  It (the bios) doesn't ever need to 
accessed again (except in a UEFI environment with  GPT partitioned disk) 
but it must be done.

So please shine a light in that crevice holding the secret sauce that 
makes all this work.

I am sure I am not the only one with a visible curiosity bump, :)
 
Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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