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ELILO.EFI: Linux boot loader for EFI/IA-64 and EFI/IA-32 based systems
ELILO.EFI: Linux boot loader for
EFI/IA-64,EFI/IA-32 and EFI/x86_64 based systems
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Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
August 2003
Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co.
Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Intel Co.
I/ Introduction
------------
This document describes how to use ELILO on for both IA-64 and IA-32 EFI-based platforms.
This document describes ELILO version 3.4.
This document describes how to use ELILO on for IA-64, IA-32 and x86_64 EFI-based platforms.
This document describes ELILO version 3.7.
II/ Command line options
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for more information on device naming schemes. The slash character '/' can be used as
a directory separator on any file systems including the EFI file system (FAT32).
For x86_64:
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No new options.
III/ Configuration File
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where AABBCCDD is the hexadecimal representation
of the IP address assigned during the DHCP phase.
2/ elilo-ia64.conf or elilo-ia32.conf
2/ elilo-ia64.conf or elilo-ia32.conf or elilo-x86_64.conf
The choice depends on the client platform. This step allows
the same DHCP/PXE server to provide files for both types of clients.
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the user can also specify a kernel file that is not specified in the config file. In any case,
some of the global options (such as append) are always concatenated to whatever the user type.
x86_64 specific options:
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None yet.
IV/ Booting from the local system
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be booted (plain vmlinux will not work). Similarly, existing initial ramdisks can
be used without modifications.
XIII/ Booting on EFI/x86_64 platforms
-----------------------------
To use elilo on x86_64, you can put it on a floppy and
on a FAT32 partition (msdos partition). You can also
netboot if your network adapter has support for UNDI/PXE.
Elilo/x86_64 requires efi64 enabled linux kernel (> 2.6.21).
You need to compile the kernel with CONFIG_EFI option.
x86_64 platforms with UEFI 2.0 firmware deprecate UGA protocol
and therefore only the Graphics Output Protocol (GOP) is supported. For
such platforms, the kernel must be configured with EFI_FB option. This
will enable early boot messages on the console. The elilo for x86_64
attempts to query the firmware for GOP and if it fails it defaults to
text mode. Elilo ONLY takes compressed kernel image which are
typically obtained via a 'make bzImage'. Plain elf/x86_64 kernel can't
be booted (plain vmlinux will not work). Similarly, existing initial
ramdisks can be used without modifications.
The x86_64 implementation converts the EFI memory map into E820 map and
passes it in the bootparameter supplied to the OS. For details on
bootparameter, see x86_64/sysdeps.h.
IX/ Credits
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Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
Chris Ahna <christopher.j.ahna@intel.com>
Mike Johnston <michael.johnston@intel.com>
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Bibo Mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
X/ Bug reports
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XIII/ Reference
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UEFI 2.0 specifications are available from the following web site:
http://www.uefi.org/home
EFI v1.02 specifications are available from the following web site:
http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/