原来linux也有EFI引导器（elilo），原生支持linux！

2011itbeta

原来linux也有EFI引导器（elilo），原生支持linux！opensuse 、fedora也纳罕光盘去了，其他未知
今天去逛opensuse网站发现一个好东东EFI Linux Boot Loader（elilo)
windows玩efi不爽，intel和M$一起的efi 不可以diy ，linux也有还是开源的~官网：http://elilo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/blosxom


ELILO: the IA-32,IA-64 and x86_64 Linux Loader
             ----------------------------------------------
                   Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>

                         August 2003

               Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co.
               Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Intel Co.


This package contains version 3.7 of elilo, the EFI boot loader
for IA-64(IPF),IA-32(x86) and x86_64 EFI-based platforms.


RELEASE NOTES:
--------------
    Take a look at the Changelog for a detailed list of changes
    since 3.3a.

    - The major new feature of this release pertains to netbooting.
      With elilo-3.4, the bootloader will look for files ONLY in the
      directory if was downloaded from on the TFTP server. Of course,
      if you specific absolute path, files can be placed anywhere in
      the TFTP directory structure. This may break some setup but
      an explicit error message is printed warning the user.

    - There were a bunch of important bug fixes, including handling
      of paths when booting from the local disk.

    - Downloading of large files work with EFI versions prior to 14.60
      where there was a bug but also with the fixed version of EFI
      starting at 14.60.

    - There were also some updates for elilo on IA-32. The loader
      can load unmodified Linux kernel/initrd image from either the
      local disk or via netbooting. Thanks to Matt Tolentino at Intel
      for the IA-32 updates.

    - The ext2fs support code is still present but is not compiled in
      anymore. This code does not understand ext3fs and might lead to
      errors because it does not understand the journal.

    This package is known to compile and produce working binaries
    when used in conjunction with gnu-efi-3.0a. This package is
    available from the HP Labs FTP site:

    ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gnu-efi-3.0a.tar.gz   

    For IA-64, a toolchain know to produce working binaries is:
        gcc-3.1
        binutiuls 2.13.90

    Your may have problems with newer toolchains due to some
    dependencies in the gnu-efi package. Those dependencies
    will be fixed eventually.

    For IA-32, the Redhat 8.0 toolchain is known to produce
    working binaries when used with gnu-efi-3.0a + loader
    script patch which is included in the gnu-efi-3.0a-ia32.patch
    in this package. The toolchain includes:

    gcc: gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
    as : GNU assembler version 2.13.90.0.2 (i386-redhat-linux)
        using BFD version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802
    ld : GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802

    The Redhat 9.0 toolchain does not work at the moment.

    For x86_64, a toolchain known to produce working binaries is:
        gcc-4.1.1 or above
        binutils-2.17.50.0.14 with Intel64 EFI support
    For x86_64, the following libraries are required for the elilo build
        gnu-efi library with x86_64

DOCUMENTATION:
--------------
    PLEASE READ THE docs/elilo.txt file for some documentation on how
    to use this program. For netbooting refer to docs/netbooting.txt.

    Make sure you read the README.gnu-efi file for required packages.

2012yhq

grub2 efi 是否支持网络启动？

fujianabc

grub2更合适，elilo相当于lilo，超古老的东西了