What are the advantages of UEFI booting over traditional booting methods

Three advantages of UEFI booting over traditional BIOS booting:

First: Security

UEFI booting requires a separate partition, which isolates the system boot files from the operating system itself, allowing for better protection of the system boot. Even if the system boot error needs to be reconfigured, we can simply reconfigure the boot partition. Moreover, for Win8, it utilizes UEFI Secure Boot and creates a source of trust between the certificates stored in the firmware and the platform's firmware, ensuring that signed and certified "known safe" code and boot loaders can be executed before loading the operating system, preventing users from executing malicious code in the root path. malicious code in the root path.

Second: Flexible booting

EFI booting is similar to GRUB booting in that EFIShell can be invoked at boot time, where specified hardware drivers can be loaded and boot files can be selected. For example, if the default boot fails, EFIShell loads the boot file on the USB flash drive and continues to boot the system

Third: Support for larger capacities

The traditional BIOS boot is unable to boot hard drives larger than 2.1TB by default due to MBR limitations. As hard drive prices continue to go down, hard drives over 2.1TB will gradually become more popular, so UEFI boot is also the mainstream boot method in the future.