What's wrong with EFI?

JoshTriplett · on May 8, 2011

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

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

rwmj · on May 7, 2011

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).

hexley · on May 8, 2011

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

rwmj · on May 8, 2011

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

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

yuhong · on May 7, 2011

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

Really? I don't think so.