Re: [Tails-dev] UEFI is not BIOS

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Autor: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list, conan
Betreff: Re: [Tails-dev] UEFI is not BIOS
Hi conan,

Good to see you on tails-dev@ :)

Cody Brownstein:
>> It appears that BIOS is used for both BIOS and UEFI.
>
> I think for this documentation it's fine to use BIOS in place of UEFI.
> Regardless of whether the user's computer has a traditional BIOS or a
> modern UEFI, the goal is to get Tails to boot off the USB stick.


Right, that's why I wrote only "BIOS" here. I think that most people
continue to use the word "BIOS" to mean either BIOS or UEFI.

In this particular case, it doesn't really make the documentation more
cumbersome to follow so I went ahead and changed "BIOS" to
"BIOS or UEFI" in 19fcdac8ce.

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sajolida
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