| Mike DePaulo on 22 Feb 2016 14:50:00 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] FYI: It is possible* to boot UEFI executables from NTFS |
I do not mean to disrespect, but it sounds like you are confused by the components/stages of the boot process. If you want a straightforward open source only UEFI boot process, it would look like: 1. coreboot (hardware initialization portion of the firmware) 2. Tianocore (UEFI portion of the firmware) 3. GRUB2 (bootloader) 4. linux+initramfs If you were in the BIOS world, you would substitute SeaBIOS for #2, and then use the BIOS build of GRUB2 for #3 Between steps 2 and 3, you can have a chainloader (or at least that's what it's called in BIOS terminology.) And that chainloader could also serve as bootloader in its own right. If you are looking for something like this where #2 is UEFI (Tianocore or a proprietary competitor), look at reFInd. It was discussed in Rich's presentation. It acts as both a chainloader (for every possible bootloader) and as a bootloader (for Linux specifically.) It has autodetection: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ -Mike On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Mike DePaulo <mikedep333@gmail.com> wrote: >> *Using a UEFI NTFS driver, which is located on a small FAT32 partition. >> https://github.com/pbatard/uefi-ntfs >> > > Sounds like a secondary bootloader. Obviously those are unlimited in > their capabilities. Does anybody know if anybody has created anything > like "coreboot for UEFI" or similar? I'm thinking about a > linux+initramfs that is just designed to provide a super-flexible > bootloader for another OS. Maybe that is what the more popular UEFI > bootloaders already do. > > -- > Rich > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug