Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:11:28 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > > It appears to be a 2-stage boot process: > > BIOS boot -> Binary of GRUB bootstrap loader. > You don't have a BIOS with a UEFI system.
We were discussing BIOS boot on a MFT partition scheme, which is what I'm using right now. > >Boot -> Grub libraries, config, and kernels. > The boot manager in the firmware picks an EFI boot image from the ESP, > usually sda1. Once it loads that it's job is done. The boot image can be > a kernel or a secondary bootloader like GRUB. > > Really, there is rarely a point in using GRUB on a UEFI system. Any > bootloader adds extra complication, GRUB does it in spades. Just use a > boot manager like rEFInd or systemd-boot - the latter is the simpler to > work with AFAICT. I would tend to agree with you except I tried booting my kernel with the EFI stub loader by copying it to BOOTx64.EFI (the specification has the X lower case but actual implementations seem to be case insensitive), and the system would lock up. I have no idea what to read into that. The contribution of GRUB is that it makes it easier to change kernel parameters without recompiling the kernel. Damint, my e-mail editor is freezing and not showing my text for several seconds... =( I can type through the pauses but can't read what I'm misspelling during them. =/ -- Strange Game. The only winning move is not to play. Powers are not rights.
