Re: uefi boot?

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:00:27AM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2016, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > gptmbr.bin is just MBR code.  You also need to put bootxx code in the 
> > > partition at index 1 with installboot.
> 
> I doubt it's going to help or be what you are interested in, but most 
> systems have the ability to turn on "legacy BIOS" in the EFI interface 
> that allows the standard old rig to work. I do this with HP DL gen9 
> servers because it cuts the post/boot time in half vis-a-vis EFI. However, 
> I realize a lot of folks want EFI to work etc.. Perhaps you are just 
> testing. 
> 
> My understanding is that EFI generally wants a FAT file system with a 
> /boot directory and it uses naming conventions to grab what it believes 
> is the first state loader. However, I know very little about EFI other 
> than "it usually doesn't work at this point". I'm sure there are good 
> things about it, I'm just not up-to-date with it. 
> 
> -Swift
> 

There currently is no official x86/uefiboot(8).  I've got something WIP,
but I need to reinvestigate toolchain options that have appeared since I
put that project on the shelf.