[nflug] Bios /EFI question

[John Seth]

The latest Linux kernels already makes use of it, I've seen options for 
it in during configuration.

I believe your source based Distro's, such as Gentoo, may be able to 
utilize it sooner... I would guess the boot loader would probably be 
Linux' general hurdle at the moment, I'm not sure if GRUB supports it, 
and I'm slightly more sure LILO most likely doesn't yet. I'm hazy on it 
as well, so there may be more distro's ready for it, or none at all.

- Tony

anthonyriga wrote:
> You think that this will be built in  soon for Linux ? 
>
> */"David W. Aquilina" <david at starkindler.us>/* wrote:
>
>
>     You'd need an installer / bootloader that understood how to
>     interact with EFI.
>
>     These pieces are already present in the open source world as EFI
>     is also used with Itaniums, however AFAIK there are no
>     distributions which currently contain EFI support in their x86
>     ISOs. You'd have to roll your own - not a horribly difficult task,
>     but it will be significantly harder than simply downloading,
>     burning, and booting an ISO as normal.
>
>     -- 
>     David W. Aquilina
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