Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 15:34:35 UTC 2016


On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Fernando Herrero Carrón <elferdo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> * While getting to FreeBSD's loader seems a bit faster (or maybe that's
> just confirmation bias), bringing up the system does not seem much faster.
>

Aside from working around some buggy boot BIOSes, the main speedup would be
not having to do a staged load in 16 bit mode with only 1MB RAM accessible.
I don't think this will be that noticeable.

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