On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:21:23 -0800 Keith Dart <ke...@dartworks.biz> wrote:
> Re , j...@jdm.myzen.co.uk said: > > I followed the Gentoo wiki and Arch wiki and several other sources > > of which I failed miserably. Is this technology fairly unreliable? I > > booted from a uefi enabled usb stick but still fell over. Is this > > ready for mainstream or still alpha like? > > > FWIW I hate grub2. ;) > > I'm a big fan syslinux/extlinux. > > But recent Linux kernels can be compiled as UEFI apps, thus don't need > a boot loader (e.g. grub2) at all (in theory). > > > -- Keith > > Hmmm agree with the grub2 thing. Seems overly complicated just to get an OS running. But maybe there are good reasons for it. I'm no expert understanding boot loaders though. UEFI apps sounds interesting. I'll have a look into it. But I dual boot with Windows so maybe forced to use grub2 or such like. Does syslinux work with uefi/gpt? -- John D Maunder
