Steve McIntyre wrote: > As I've just blogged, I've got a second alpha CD released with EFI > support, this time using grub-efi by default. The first release used > elilo only, but I think grub is preferred. So, my question is: should > we follow existing x86 convention and allow users a choice of > bootloader (grub-efi/elilo like grub/lilo for BIOS boot), or should we > just offer grub-efi? Both work OK, but grub-efi is a bit more capable > IMHO. If we *do* want to support elilo too, we'll need small patches > applying to both elilo and elilo-installer (see attached for what I > have so far). Talking of elilo, I also found #685186 in my testing...
I'd say we still allow installing lilo due to a combination of inertia and possibly it supporting some configurations that grub does not. If these reasons don't apply for EFI, simplicity rules. -- see shy jo
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