On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:23:45PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Matthew Garrett: > > grub's running before ExitBootServices(), because otherwise it has no > > way to actually read anything off disk. Or draw to the screen. > > Sorry, if Linux can read from the disk after ExitBootServices(), so > can a boot loader. Actually, we could boot Linux directly, with an > initrd which contains a boot selector, and use kexec if the chosen > kernel doesn't match the initial one.
"A bootloader" might be able to. grub can't. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
