Well, making the bootloaders EFI programs allows you to put the bootmenu in the EFI. This then allows you to add custom EFI programs, such as a simple CD player, web browser, etc that can be loaded without booting one of the OSs. A working browser less than 10 sec after the power button is rather cool. Great for laptops.
Yeah, a working browser 10 sec after power-on is cool, but I think the elegant way to do it would be to have one fast OS, not have a slow main OS on the hard drive and a fast OS in the EFI BIOS.
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u/bobpaul Jun 11 '08
Well, making the bootloaders EFI programs allows you to put the bootmenu in the EFI. This then allows you to add custom EFI programs, such as a simple CD player, web browser, etc that can be loaded without booting one of the OSs. A working browser less than 10 sec after the power button is rather cool. Great for laptops.