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}}</ref> (which, when written to a GPT in the required little endian fields, forms the ASCII string "<tt>Hah!IdontNeedEFI</tt>").<!-- See talk page for some notes on endianness confusion. --> In the context of GPT on a BIOS-based computer, a BIOS boot partition is similar in some respects to the [[EFI System partition]], which is used by systems based on [[Extensible Firmware Interface|EFI]]. The EFI System partition holds a filesystem and files used by the UEFI, while the BIOS boot partition is used in BIOS-based systems and accessed without a filesystem by holding raw binary code.
The size requirements for a BIOS boot partition are quite low so it can be as small as about 30 KiB
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