grub-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatab


From: Jan Beulich
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 22/23] x86: make Xen early boot code relocatable
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 02:22:46 -0600

>>> On 27.08.15 at 19:56, <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If you advocate direct booting ( no boot loader)  on production machines I
> wont argue much, as long as there is good recovery tools to deal with
> failed boots (grub does this very well, I am not aware of anything
> comparable that is pure efi). however the other use case which care more
> about is dual booting. I am a novice when it comes to Xen, although
> otherwise competent. The test machines I have for playing with Xen are also
> used for other tests, some of which require raw hardware support, so I want
> the ability to use a boot menu.

All EFI systems that I've seen so far have a boot manager. Are you
saying there are vendors who remove that?

Jan




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]