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Bug#812236: CD-Image does not boot with Libreboot/GRUB



On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 07:36:27PM +0100, Frank Guthausen wrote:
> 2) Grub's chainloading depends on BIOS/UEFI:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
> | Chain-loading is only supported on PC BIOS and EFI platforms.

I don't know that this is fundamentally true.  "Supported" is of course
a word that can mean various things, but there is at least an
implementation of the "chainloader" command for coreboot (etc.).  See
grub-core/loader/i386/coreboot/chainloader.c.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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