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Re: [EFI] allow use of elilo on amd64/i386 EFI machines?



Steve McIntyre wrote:
> As I've just blogged, I've got a second alpha CD released with EFI
> support, this time using grub-efi by default. The first release used
> elilo only, but I think grub is preferred. So, my question is: should
> we follow existing x86 convention and allow users a choice of
> bootloader (grub-efi/elilo like grub/lilo for BIOS boot), or should we
> just offer grub-efi? Both work OK, but grub-efi is a bit more capable
> IMHO. If we *do* want to support elilo too, we'll need small patches
> applying to both elilo and elilo-installer (see attached for what I
> have so far). Talking of elilo, I also found #685186 in my testing...

I'd say we still allow installing lilo due to a combination of inertia
and possibly it supporting some configurations that grub does not.
If these reasons don't apply for EFI, simplicity rules.

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see shy jo

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