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Support MBR as an option on EFI booted systems

Open Torxed opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

Just like we support GRUB and systemd-boot on EFI systems. Users might want to have the option to use MBR for whatever reason on EFI systems.

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Torxed avatar May 19 '22 13:05 Torxed

Not entirely sure there's a very good reason to do MBR in EFI, unless you want the same hard drive going from a newer to a MUCH older machine or something. I'd put this as a very low priority

dylanmtaylor avatar May 19 '22 16:05 dylanmtaylor

Not entirely sure there's a very good reason to do MBR in EFI, unless you want the same hard drive going from a newer to a MUCH older machine or something.

Sometimes, I do this and it's very handy to switch between laptops just by swapping hard drives.

i2 avatar May 20 '22 02:05 i2