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1 ELILO: the IA-32,IA-64 and x86_64 Linux Loader
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3 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
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5 August 2003
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7 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co.
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8 Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Intel Co.
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9
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11 This package contains version 3.7 of elilo, the EFI boot loader
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12 for IA-64(IPF),IA-32(x86) and x86_64 EFI-based platforms.
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14
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15 RELEASE NOTES:
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16 --------------
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17 Take a look at the Changelog for a detailed list of changes
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18 since 3.3a.
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19
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20 - The major new feature of this release pertains to netbooting.
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21 With elilo-3.4, the bootloader will look for files ONLY in the
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22 directory if was downloaded from on the TFTP server. Of course,
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23 if you specific absolute path, files can be placed anywhere in
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24 the TFTP directory structure. This may break some setup but
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25 an explicit error message is printed warning the user.
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26
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27 - There were a bunch of important bug fixes, including handling
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28 of paths when booting from the local disk.
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29
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30 - Downloading of large files work with EFI versions prior to 14.60
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31 where there was a bug but also with the fixed version of EFI
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32 starting at 14.60.
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33
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34 - There were also some updates for elilo on IA-32. The loader
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35 can load unmodified Linux kernel/initrd image from either the
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36 local disk or via netbooting. Thanks to Matt Tolentino at Intel
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37 for the IA-32 updates.
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38
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39 - The ext2fs support code is still present but is not compiled in
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40 anymore. This code does not understand ext3fs and might lead to
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41 errors because it does not understand the journal.
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43 This package is known to compile and produce working binaries
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44 when used in conjunction with gnu-efi-3.0a. This package is
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45 available from the HP Labs FTP site:
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47 ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gnu-efi-3.0a.tar.gz
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48
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49 For IA-64, a toolchain know to produce working binaries is:
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50 gcc-3.1
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51 binutiuls 2.13.90
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52
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53 Your may have problems with newer toolchains due to some
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54 dependencies in the gnu-efi package. Those dependencies
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55 will be fixed eventually.
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57 For IA-32, the Redhat 8.0 toolchain is known to produce
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58 working binaries when used with gnu-efi-3.0a + loader
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59 script patch which is included in the gnu-efi-3.0a-ia32.patch
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60 in this package. The toolchain includes:
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62 gcc: gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
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63 as : GNU assembler version 2.13.90.0.2 (i386-redhat-linux)
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64 using BFD version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802
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65 ld : GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802
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67 The Redhat 9.0 toolchain does not work at the moment.
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69 For x86_64, a toolchain known to produce working binaries is:
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70 gcc-4.1.1 or above
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71 binutils-2.17.50.0.14 with Intel64 EFI support
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72 For x86_64, the following libraries are required for the elilo build
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73 gnu-efi library with x86_64
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74
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75 DOCUMENTATION:
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76 --------------
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77 PLEASE READ THE docs/elilo.txt file for some documentation on how
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78 to use this program. For netbooting refer to docs/netbooting.txt.
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80 Make sure you read the README.gnu-efi file for required packages.
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