Kevin Chadwick via Dng said on Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:56:26 +0100
(GMT+01:00)

>17 Sept 2025 09:59:26 fraser via Dng <dng@???>:
>
>>> It's not harmful. The efi does not have to be right at the beginning
>>> of the disk and does not need to be the first partition.
>>>
>>> I like to make a small partition in front of the esp for a bios grub
>>> partition in case I ever want or need to boot the gpt disk in legacy
>>> mode instead of uefi. It needs to be at least 1 MB and not have a
>>> filesystem on it. I generally give it 2 MB. Partition type is ef02
>>> in gdisk.
>
>Maybe I have lost the thread of UEFI not being harmful but one
>unforeseen problem that could never happen with legacy mbr due to it's
>simplicity is that.

[snip very real problem caused by UEFI only}

Once again, UEFI is an overhypercomplexificenated solution to a problem
that was solved 40 years ago.

In this age of bind mounts, why would ANYBODY need more than 7
partitions at early boot time? Wassamata, can't they write a
shellscript to mount their "simply must have" 40 other partitions?

"Oh, but we needed secure boot!"

OK fine, for sure for sure, they need secure boot. Secure boot could
have been a small, standalone part of the bios, compatible with *self
signed* certs for those of us who don't completely trust Microsoft. But
nooooo! Because in truth secure boot, as implemented today, is nothing
more or less than Microsoft monopolism.

Was the old MBR perfect? No.

Is UEFI the solution? Hell no!

SteveT

Steve Litt

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