[syslinux] Status of EFI support?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Apr 20 09:33:19 PDT 2012


On 04/19/2012 11:53 PM, Andreas Heinlein wrote:
>>
> That's exactly the point. There already are solutions for EFI booting
> (GRUB is another one), but you don't get the same menu and the same
> features. That may be quite annoying to the end user; most of them don't
> know what EFI/BIOS is and don't care at all, they just want to get the
> same thing on all machines.
> 
> Efistub may be sufficient for booting a locally installed system, where
> you usually don't need any menus. But since Syslinux, AFAIK, is now used
> mostly on live systems, installation systems and such, EFI support is
> definitely something we need.
> 

And it is under very active development; it just is not ready yet.

	-hpa




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