Nix writes: > Agreed. I avoided GPT like the plague for ages (shoddy early-2010s > motherboard firmware), but once I switched to it it was so much easier > to manage than old-style BIOS, and so much easier to deal with when > disaster struck, that I'd never consider going back. Does the BIOS have > anything like an EFI shell? No, no it doesn't. Can you hack your own My current and previous motherboard with UEFI boot support did not come with the shell. I once tried downloading one and running it but never could find anything useful to do with it. I also haven't ever been able to find any useful UEFI drivers or programs. > Can you play DOOM before the OS starts in your BIOS-based system -- oh > wait, sane people don't do that, do they. But you can't get higher > availability for truly important functions than that! > <https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_UEFI> OMG!
