[TriLUG] Linux and EFI

[Warren Myers]

http://theweeklyrant.com/article/8/news-apple-bootcamp-boots-linux

this story showed up in another mailing list I subscribe to this morning.

Warren

On 4/7/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I note that Apple just announced that new versions of OS/X will
> include something called "boot camp" which will allow booting Windows
> on intel-macs which use the new Intel "Extensible Firmware Interface"
> instead of BIOS.
>
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
>
> This got me to wondering about booting Linux on these machines, and
> the state of EFI support for Linux.  Grub is pretty much tied to the
> BIOS model, and I don't have any direct experience with lilo.
>
> EFI support seems to be a feature of Grub 2 which appears to be in an
> early stage of development, and there also seems to be an elilo, but
> the project web page seems to be broken.
>
> Any insights?
>
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