On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:38:09PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 13:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:42:00AM -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
From that perspective, extlinux does offer a significant advantage: it is plain simple (or can be anyway). This might be attractive to a not-insignificant portion of the Fedora users if it was explained and demonstrated to them.
Yes indeed. And I do happen to also run it on my laptop.
Having said that, a question Matt since you seem to be much more familiar with extlinux (an I assume syslinux also): does extlinux/syslinux currently have the functionality to replace grub2? Does it support EFI?
Yes, with some limitations. Probably gummiboot is the interesting thing to look at in that case.
Random mjg59 quotes from IRC yesterday:
<mjg59> pbrobinson: gummiboot is a toy loader. It's not generally useful. <mjg59> There's too many corner cases that can't be supported with it
...he's not a fan. (context was a discussion of how to get 32-bit UEFI firmware things like my new tablet working with Fedora, but that seems like a general opinion of gummiboot).
.. but it does not mean that the loader is useless at all. I'm (ThinkPad user) pretty happy with gummiboot for last year. It's well integrated to the distribution since Fedora 19 and the configuration is soo simple and no turing-complete ;-)
Karel