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Anything has to be better than the giant mess which is EFI. EFI is worse in just about every way than the BIOS, which is quite an achievement considering how everyone hates the BIOS.

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What's wrong with EFI?

Incredible complex. Rarely works. Doesn't solve any problems of the BIOS (with the exception of the 2TB disk limit, but that could have been solved more easily).

> Rarely works. Doesn't solve any problems of the BIOS

Really? I don't think so.

I've never noticed the EFI on my MacBook, it's certainly never gotten in the way -- can you elaborate?

EFI on Macbooks broke CD-ROM booting, which is pretty fundamental I'd say.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527443

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_system_effect

Massively overdesigned, and the designers clearly considered systems like COM and ActiveX good models to emulate.

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