Re: [EFI] allow use of elilo on amd64/i386 EFI machines?
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 07:18:53AM -0600, Jason Fleischli wrote:
>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.
Hi Jason,
Thanks for the feedback, appreciated. :-)
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