On Wed, 14.05.14 19:47, Matthew Garrett (mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:27:54AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > We really need to use the boot loader spec by default. Is there any > > reason why the support for it was added to grub, but not enabled ? > > The full spec is incompatible with standard practices for the EFI system > partition, Humm, is it? Is this about loving /boot/efi so much? > and especially incompatible with the way we handle Mac > hardware, so adoption is unlikely. Humm, what? the spec is used (in its gummiboot implementaiton) everyday on macs, not sure what you are referring to. > The boot fragments are more > attractive, but don't currently let us express the full set of > configuration that we support (there's no way to specify chainloading > another bootloader, for instance). These seem fixable, but nobody's > currently fixing them. The boot load spec stuff is not supposed to be necessarily exclusive. If you want stuff like chainloading or memory checking or whatever else, then i recommend simply doing that outside of the spec/drop-ins, and leave the drop-ins for kernels and EFI binaries only. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
