Re: [EFI] allow use of elilo on amd64/i386 EFI machines?
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.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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