Replacing grubby with grub2-mkconfig in kernel install process

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Jun 20 17:05:48 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:59:33AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

> Well, someone already pointed to
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~kay/loader/ , which seems intriguing. I
> haven't read anything Kay's said publicly about it, though. Of course,
> it's UEFI-specific.

Which is a good reason for it not to be the default. We're only going to 
audit one set of code for secure boot purposes, and it's not going to be 
something that lacks required functionality like PXE support.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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