On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Basil Chupin
On 23/06/12 02:33, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:39:17 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
But, as you state, there is no consensus as to what is going to happen, and only 1 vendor proffered the 3 options you mentioned.
Looks like Canonical is now involved in solving it for Ubuntu - they're going to use efiboot it looks like, which apparently (from a slashdot article, so follow the link to the "real" story) means they only need to sign the bootloader and not the kernel.
But that is likely to make things difficult for multi-boot Linux users, if the distros have different solutions and require different bootloaders.
Jim
As long as the most recently installed bootloader: 1. Is legal, paid for, blessed by all the attorneys, accountants, etc. and 2. Can find and boot everything that was bootable before it was installed I'd say everyone should be happy. I'm currently thrashing about getting openSUSE 12.2 beta 2 and Fedora 17 bootloaders to acknowledge everything and I must say neither's version of GRUB2 is looking very good right now. ;-) -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb Computational Journalism Server http://j.mp/compjournoserver Data is the new coal - abundant, dirty and difficult to mine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org