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The following are resources from past events and technical sessions.

UEFI Drive Partition Limits Fact Sheet

A fact sheet describing the limitation of Master Boot Record (MBR) Partition on systems with disk drives of greater than 2.2 Terabyte capacity, and the UEFI solution for this limitation.

A Tale of Two Standards Article

An article examining two technologies and comparing the evolutions of the boot firmware technology and the networking solutions.

Learn more about the upcoming book from Intel Press and download technical articles

Harnessing the UEFI Shell
Moving the platform beyond DOS
By Michael Rothman, Tim Lewis, Vincent Zimmer and Robert Hale

Download the Forward by Dong Wei (Vice President and Chief Executive, The UEFI Forum)
Download article: A Brief Introduction to the Conception of the UEFI Shell
Download article: The UEFI Shell in Detail
Download article: Using the UEFI Shell for Bare Metal Provisioning

UEFI Plugfest June 22 - 24, 2010

Download the presentations (5MB zip file)

UEFI Plugfest September 24-28, 2007

Download the presentations (3MB zip file)

Session presentations include:

Phoenix Session: BIOS on UEFI - What they never taught you in UEFI 101
Intel Session: UEFI 2.1 and UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) 1.0 Details and Differences
AMD Session: AMD Common Silicon Firmware Module (ACSFM)
Microsoft Session: Microsoft and UEFI

UEFI Plugfest June 11-15, 2007

Download the Presentations