metala

BIOS of my old 486 system (bought in 1995) has ncurses like GUI w/ mouse support. So that's not a new thing :P
The idea is EFI, some middle layers between OS and Hardware an other things.

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As long as it can overclock and isn't going to add more then $10 to motherboards, I don't really care.

DuckieHo

You wouldn't pay over $10 for guaranteed driver support and compatibility plus reduce load times? Not to mention driver releases in half the time. The potential of EFI is pretty good.

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thydevil

Yeah. Hopefully EFI might actually make Linux bootable on a dual hard disk configuration. That'd be sweet.

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noshibby

EFI is what they use in macs, and you don't see macs having problems with it do you?

and my earlier post got deleted

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ENTERPRISE

EFI does look fairly cool. All I care about is pricing. I would love to have a motherboard with it as life would be easier. However I am hoping its not going to become one of those horribly expensive new tech kind of things.

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noshibby

thing is, its really not that new it came out in 2000, motherboards for pc's have just not been supporting it, while macs have had it for a very long time



src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensi...ware_Interface

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ENTERPRISE

Oh I didnt know that it had been out since 2000...old news when it comes to Macs then lol.

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arekieh

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i have the Neo2, do u htink MSI has a step up lol

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airbozo

Also old news to the Super Computing community since SGI has been using an efi loader since they helped HP and Intel develop it. I use it daily when working on the sgi Altix platform. At first it kind of sucks because you have to figure out a new way to interact with the system. Once it is "mainstreamed" I expect it to get more intuitive. Very handy to trouble shoot problems or fix HD's.

For example; Once I power on the system and get the efi prompt I can run limited unix/linux/dos commands. I can mount drives, search drives, copy and replace files, install software updates (from local files or network), reconfigure the kernel, reorganize boot priorities and even ping systems on the network.

EDIT: Oh and BTW, this functionality has been on sgi (and other) systems since the late 80's (or even earlier). It was just not called efi.

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