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[โ€“] JackbyDev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm talking about BIOS, yeah, sorry if it was unclear. My 2009 CPU is still hanging on. Barely.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2009 usually means you could indeed run it without an MBR: GPT format plus a very small (2MB) partition flagged to take over the functionality of containing a bootloader normally embedded in the MBR.