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On 04/04/2017 07:02 PM, Oren wrote:

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BTW, I have used 32-bit Linux on a system with 32GB RAM, and it
recognized it all.


IF I understand it, UEFI doesn't need to read the HDD boot sector,
where the BIOS does. I'll know more later :-)


"Boot sector" would be the MBR. I don't know if UEFI always checks that,
even when booting from GPT (which comes after the MBR on disk).


-- Win10, 8GB RAM & 1 TB drive.



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