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ELILO: the IA-32 and IA-64 Linux Loader
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Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
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August 2003
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Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co.
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This package contains version 3.4 of elilo, the EFI boot loader
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for IA-64(IPF) and IA-32(x86) EFI-based platforms.
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RELEASE NOTES:
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Take a look at the Changelog for a detailed list of changes
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since 3.3a.
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- The major new feature of this release pertains to netbooting.
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With elilo-3.4, the bootloader will look for files ONLY in the
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directory if was downloaded from on the TFTP server. Of course,
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if you specific absolute path, files can be placed anywhere in
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the TFTP directory structure. This may break some setup but
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an explicit error message is printed warning the user.
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- There were a bunch of important bug fixes, including handling
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of paths when booting from the local disk.
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- Downloading of large files work with EFI versions prior to 14.60
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where there was a bug but also with the fixed version of EFI
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starting at 14.60.
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- There were also some updates for elilo on IA-32. The loader
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can load unmodified Linux kernel/initrd image from either the
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local disk or via netbooting. Thanks to Matt Tolentino at Intel
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for the IA-32 updates.
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- The ext2fs support code is still present but is not compiled in
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anymore. This code does not understand ext3fs and might lead to
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errors because it does not understand the journal.
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This package is known to compile and produce working binaries
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when used in conjunction with gnu-efi-3.0a. This package is
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available from the HP Labs FTP site:
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ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gnu-efi-3.0a.tar.gz
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For IA-64, a toolchain know to produce working binaries is:
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gcc-3.1
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binutiuls 2.13.90
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Your may have problems with newer toolchains due to some
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dependencies in the gnu-efi package. Those dependencies
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will be fixed eventually.
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For IA-32, the Redhat 8.0 toolchain is known to produce
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working binaries when used with gnu-efi-3.0a + loader
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script patch which is included in the gnu-efi-3.0a-ia32.patch
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in this package. The toolchain includes:
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gcc: gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
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as : GNU assembler version 2.13.90.0.2 (i386-redhat-linux)
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using BFD version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802
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ld : GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802
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The Redhat 9.0 toolchain does not work at the moment.
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DOCUMENTATION:
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PLEASE READ THE docs/elilo.txt file for some documentation on how
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to use this program. For netbooting refer to docs/netbooting.txt.
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Make sure you read the README.gnu-efi file for required packages.
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