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Date:      Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:56:49 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        Fernando Herrero =?utf-8?Q?Carr=C3=B3n?= <elferdo@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)
Message-ID:  <20161217095649.GF90401@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20161217170412.V26979@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
References:  <CAMwkeZznenmN1RkUaKZ7i12F0FA185ZH%2BcHPXUp56S8j3SrubQ@mail.gmail.com> <20161217170412.V26979@sola.nimnet.asn.au>

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On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 05:12:13PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:34 +0100, Fernando Herrero CarrĂ³n wrote:
>  > Hi everyone,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you've had plenty of helpful responses, but nobody has commented on:
> 
>  > My only reason for wanting to boot with UEFI is faster boot, 
>  > everything is working fine otherwise.
> 
> I'm skeptical that UEFI boot would be any or noticeably faster than via 
> BIOS, but am interested in hearing of any experiences regarding that.

Some BIOS start with very long try UEFI boot atempt and try legacy
boot only all of that fails.

I.e. this is not speedup FreeBSD boot, this is speedup _start_ of
FreeBSD boot for some BIOS.



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