EFI BIOS on ASUS P6T series?

David Brown wrote
Rod Speed wrote
David Brown wrote
Andrew Hamilton wrote
David Brown wrote

Most windows systems are okay with GPT disks for other
partitions (though tools for creating GPT partition tables may
be limited). I don't know about your usage patterns, but I
tend to keep the OS reasonably stable on a given system - I
don't change boot or OS drives, but may add new drives for data.

For you and me and the other people who read this list, that
makes perfect sense. But to the system manufacturers, I think
they will want to stay with one-drive products. (not including
optical drives, of course).

What you say here is entirely true, but my understanding was that
the PC in question was being bought and built now, with a view to
possibly upgrading in the future - thus support for large boot
disks is not a big issue here.

Thats just plain wrong too. Plenty choose to have a single drive
system and when they run out of space on that, just replace the
single drive with a larger one.

This is just my experience and opinion

Pity its just plain wrong.

(just like your view, unless you can reference numbers),

Dont need to 'reference numbers', ****wit child.

but most people do not like to mess with their "c drive"

Easy to claim. Have fun actually substantiating that claim.

And what matters aint what 'most people' may or may not like,
what matters is what they allow professionals to do to their system.

(non-windows users are a different matter - but they are not "most people").

You quite sure you aint one of those rocket scientist ****wit children ?

They don't like to re-install their OS,

You dont have to reintall the OS, ****wit child.

or to use low-level disk utilities to move the OS partition.

Nothing 'low level' about cloners, ****wit child.

But they *do* understand the concept of running out of disk space for storing photos, music, downloaded films, etc.,
and adding a new hard disk is not that hard.

Cloning the hard drive aint that hard either, ****wit child.

And of course adding a second drive means you have the combined disk
space of the two drives - why would someone want to throw away the
original drive to replace it with a new one, when you can have both?

Because its a lot easier to replace a drive than to add another with many system, ****wit child.

Thus I believe it is much more common to add a second hard drive for data than to replace the system drive.

You're just plain wrong, as always.

But you are of course right that it will be an issue in the future - probably forcing more systems over to EFI
bioses.

Corse the EFI bios will become universal sometime.

No, it will not become universal

Corse it will.

- there are several reasons to choose something other than EFI

Nope.

(including unnecessary complexity,

Mindlessly silly. No 'complexity' when its done properly, ****wit child.

compatibility issues,

Mindlessly silly. No 'compatibility issues' when its done properly, ****wit child.

and security and freedom concerns -

Mindlessly silly. No 'security and freedom concerns' when its done properly, ****wit child.

some people are worried that the EFI may try to limit or lock the OS running on the system, meaning the user can't use
the OS of their choice).

Only the pig ignorant fools. You qualify, ****wit child.

The EFI will become more common, but certainly not "universal".

Wrong, as always.

Of course, alternatives for the future (such as newer traditional BIOSes, CoreBoot, etc.) either support GPT now, or
will no doubt do so in the future.

You quite sure you aint one of those rocket scientist ****wit children ?

Ron Speed wrote:
David Brown wrote
Ron Speed wrote

Corse the EFI bios will become universal sometime.

No, it will not become universal

Corse it will.

Where do you buy your crystal balls, Ron?