Re: Question about the GNU Grub ideas

[Tristan Gingold]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:49:55PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> At Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:58:54 -0800,
> xiongyi wrote:
[...]
> > 2.  The goal of grub2 for efi support is the same as the one of elilo,
> > namely an efi OS Loader (also an efi application, for example elilo.efi file
> > in the elilo project). Is that right?
>  
> Yes, the purpose is to load GRUB on EFI hardware so that GRUB can do
> all the things it normally does when you load it from standard x86
> BIOS.
Compared to elilo, grub2 can't boot from network.

> > 3.  There is a real EFI platform in my lab, but I will graduate and
> > leave that lab in this June. Accordingly, I have some considerations about
> > the development platform and environment. If the efi feature of grub2 is
> > only an efi OS loader, whether the EDK open source project can serve as the
> > development and debug platform. 
> 
> My experience is that while you can develop and test on such things,
> real hardware has subtle differences most of the time and you always
> need hardware to test whether it really works.
You may use qemu.

Tristan