On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 13:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:42:00AM -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > > From that perspective, extlinux does offer a significant advantage: > > it is plain simple (or can be anyway). This might be attractive to > > a not-insignificant portion of the Fedora users if it was explained > > and demonstrated to them. > > Yes indeed. And I do happen to also run it on my laptop. > > > Having said that, a question Matt since you seem to be much more > > familiar with extlinux (an I assume syslinux also): does > > extlinux/syslinux currently have the functionality to replace grub2? > > Does it support EFI? > > Yes, with some limitations. Probably gummiboot is the interesting thing to > look at in that case. Random mjg59 quotes from IRC yesterday: <mjg59> pbrobinson: gummiboot is a toy loader. It's not generally useful. <mjg59> There's too many corner cases that can't be supported with it ...he's not a fan. (context was a discussion of how to get 32-bit UEFI firmware things like my new tablet working with Fedora, but that seems like a general opinion of gummiboot). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
