Re: [EFI] allow use of elilo on amd64/i386 EFI machines?
Hi Steve,
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 19:20 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:54:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >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.
>
> Yep, fair enough.
>
IMO, more choice is goodness but if I had to choose one for EFI going
forward I would lean towards grub-efi as well the big reason being
chain-loading which elilo never supported and that may become more
important with UEFI+secure boot. my .02.
cheers,
the upstream elilo guy.
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