On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam@scientician.net> wrote:
On 2014-12-16 20:40, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote:
I had to use MBR on a relatively recent machine because the supposedly-UEFI firmware refused to even recognise GPT disks, let alone boot from them. It's still relevant.
Interesting. Care to name-and-shame said firmware?
(I don't necessarily think it influences the decision, even so. Surely the Beginner's Guide should be optimized for the common case rather than edge cases, as yours probably was?)
It was a bottom-of-the-line Hewlett-Packard mini-tower — one of the very last models that still shipped with Windows 7 as an option. Given how many people are still using Windows 7 and might want to upgrade to Linux rather than (shudder) Windows 8, I don't think that's an uncommon case at all. ~Celti