[ltp] Re: ThinkPad T520: uefi/gpt debian install

Robert Tomsick linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 13 May 2011 13:25:54 -0400


On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 14:13 -0300, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> UEFI+GPT is no worse than traditional BIOS+MBR and offers some
> advantages, but unless you have more than 4 partitions you likely will
> never notice the difference (except for the fact that some tools don't
> support GPT, of course).

IIRC, the Tx20 series boot a couple second faster when set up as UEFI
+GPT, hence the interest in getting them to do UEFI boots as opposed to
using BIOS emulation.

-Rob