Feature changed by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Feature #311043, revision 10 Title: switch to a UEFI-ready bootloader by default - openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Distribution: Done Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: While reading a review of a Sandy Bridge motherboard in Anandtech it was pointed that upcoming intel motherboards will ship with a UEFI firmware instead of a BIOS. While reading the documentation for UEFI firmware I noticed that the bootloader has to be a UEFI application. In order to support this new hardware we need a bootloader that supports UEFI booting, GRUB legacy as far as I know doesn't support this. I think it's time to retire GRUB legacy and use GRUB2, elilo or rEFIt (though this one is a long shot). Relations: - Update to GRUB v2 (feature/id: 308497) Discussion: #1: Jose Ricardo De Leon Solis (derhundchen) (2011-03-17 05:52:31) I noticed elilo is available for openSUSE 11.4 but can it be installed as an UEFI bootloader? #2: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) (2011-12-14 01:17:25) There is also BURG, which I do not know supports UEFI yet. But considering the reluctance of various distros in using GRUB2 it makes sense to simply fork as the BURG has with GRUB. + #3: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) (2014-06-11 11:08:28) + Mark as done because, elilo in older distribution can be used to boot + UEFI for x86_64 and in recent ones there is grub2 to allow booting + UEFI. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311043