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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:48:31
Message-Id: 50C4DCA3.6010402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media by Fernando Reyes
1 Fernando Reyes schrieb:
2 > That's what meant since we use isolinux on the release media and until syslinux-6 we are forced to use another bootloader and grub seems out of the questions because of licensing issues. I will test new syslinux soon and see how isohybrid and isolinux plau together on an EFI bios.
3
4 No, all we need is to enable EFI stub support in the kernel, and
5 integrate the initramfs using CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and place it in
6 some location where UEFI looks for it (/efi/boot/bootx64.efi).
7
8 This has the disadvantage of not allowing to pass additional kernel
9 parameters during boot. But it might still be an acceptable stopgap
10 measure if the alternative is to not boot at all.
11
12
13 Best regards,
14 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
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