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Re: grub-lnstall option (UEFI) for chainloading
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Daniel Kiper |
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Re: grub-lnstall option (UEFI) for chainloading |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:39:39 +0200 |
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:31:54PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Barry Jackson <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 06/06/15 09:38, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> >>
> >> ?? Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:56:20 +0100
> >> Barry Jackson <address@hidden> ??????????:
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> >
> >>> Any progress on this?
> >>>
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> >> Not really, sorry. Do you have any suggestion how such option should be
> >> named?
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> >
> > Sorry for delay - this got lost in the noise.
> >
> > Well something like --no-id-or-nvram ??
> >
> > Not really bothered about the name! :)
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> I was about to suggest a patch when I realized that this probably is
> currently useless on EFI. I.e. to actually chainload grub on EFI it
> must reside on a partition accessible by firmware which practically
> means it should be ESP.
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> Unless someone submits patch to make grub2 EFI core.img multiboot2
> compliant with tag to skip ExitBootServices.
Relevant patches waiting for review for months. I am working on v3.
If they are upstreamed I will be happy too.
Daniel