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Ganesh Sundar C, QA Engineer WhatisthedifferencebetweenUEFIandlegacy?

AnsweredFeb1,2015
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Firmware is the piece of software that acts as an interface between the theUEFImode?
hardware(motherboard) and the Operating System. Legacy Mode refers to BIOS rmware.
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Basic Input/Output System(BIOS) was the rst popular rmware for desktop PC introduced
in 1975 by IBM for its CP/M OS. Even though it is still widely present, computers have HowdoIinstallLinuxonUEFIsecureboot?
evolved tremendously and BIOS is unable to provide advanced features of modern
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Unied Extensible Firmware Interface(UEFI) is the successor to BIOS. UEFI uses the GUID
Partition Table (GPT) whereas BIOS uses the Master Boot Record(MBR) partitioning
scheme. GPT and MBR are both formats specifying physical partitioning information on the
hard disk. Below I have listed the dierence:
1. Max partition size in MBR is ~2TB whereas in UEFI it is ~9 ZetaBytes

2. MBR can have at max 4 primary partition whereas GPT can have 128.

3. MBR can store only one bootloader whereas GPT has a separate dedicated EFI
System Partition(ESP) for storing multiple bootloaders. This is very helpful if
you have two or more operating systems which require dierent bootloaders.

4. UEFI oers secure boot which can prevent boot-time viruses from loading.

There are many more dierences and UEFI is completely dierent from Legacy BIOS.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/ by Roderick W. Smith is an excellent online resource to learn
about UEFI and BIOS.

BIOS is pretty much outdated and UEFI oers many useful features. Thus it is
recommended to install any operating system in UEFI mode. Note: One can't install in UEFI
mode by booting in legacy mode.

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I believe Ganesh Sundar gave you the perfect answer.
Simply saying
You can choose as you wish - mainly because you won't need that kind of resources right
now for your system.
I use UEFI boot. Just select as you wish - It doesn't improve speed and all, but just move in
with the future - maybe newer Systems wont have legacy boot (BIOS) option.

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Prakhar Pal, Love Linux

AnsweredAug12,2015
A quick google search goves following
1."UEFI (Unied Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard rmware interface for PCs,
designed to replace BIOS (basic input/output system). This standard was created by over 140
technology companies as part of the UEFI consortium, including Microsoft."
UEFI is mainly used by Microsoft and it provides environment for fast -booting as you
might have observed in Windows 8/8.1
2. Legacy or BIOS mode was used before UEFI as a standard , though you'll see some PC on
the market running the Legacy mode.
Legacy is old technology UEFI is newer .
While installing you should install the OS in the mode the your motheboard supports e.g.
UEFI or Legacy.
Checking is pretty easy . For hp laptop when starting up , press escape then goto boot
options . You'll nd whether it is Legacy or UEFI .

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Charan Kruthik, Have worked on all windows PCs in depth,Used Ubuntu and
Kalilinux also!
AnsweredAug20,2016
The dierence between UEFI Boot and Legacy boot is the process that the rmware uses to
nd the boot target.

Legacy Boot is the boot process used by BIOS rmware. The rmware maintains a list of
installed storage devices that may be bootable (Floppy Disk Drives, Hard Disk Drives,
Optical Disk Drives, Tape Drives, etc...) and enumerates them in a congurable order of
priority. One the POST procedure has completed, the rmware loads the rst sector of each
of the storage targets into memory and scans it for a valid Master Boot Record (MBR). If a
valid MBR is found, the rmware passes execution to the boot loader code found in the MBR
which allows the user to select a partition to boot from. If one is not found, it proceeds to
the next device in the boot order. If no MBR is found at all, the user is presented with the
famous "Please insert system disk yadda yadda yadda"

UEFI boot is the boot process used by UEFI rmware. The rmware maintains a list of valid
boot volumes called EFI Service Partitions. During the POST procedure the UEFI rmware
scans all of the bootable storage devices that are connected to the system for a valid GUID
Partition Table (GPT). Unlike a MBR, a GPT does not contain a boot loader. The rmware
itself scans the GPTs to nd an EFI Service Partition to boot from. If no EFI bootable
partition is found, the rmware can fall back on the Legacy Boot method. If both UEFI boot
and Legacy boot fail, the famous "Please insert system disk yadda yadda yadda" will be
presented.

In general, UEFI boot is more desirable.

SOURCE:tomshardware.com

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