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| 1 ELILO: the IA-32,IA-64 and x86_64 Linux Loader | |
| 2 ---------------------------------------------- | |
| 3 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> | |
| 4 | |
| 5 August 2003 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co. | |
| 8 Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Intel Co. | |
| 9 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 This package contains version 3.7 of elilo, the EFI boot loader | |
| 12 for IA-64(IPF),IA-32(x86) and x86_64 EFI-based platforms. | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 RELEASE NOTES: | |
| 16 -------------- | |
| 17 Take a look at the Changelog for a detailed list of changes | |
| 18 since 3.3a. | |
| 19 | |
| 20 - The major new feature of this release pertains to netbooting. | |
| 21 With elilo-3.4, the bootloader will look for files ONLY in the | |
| 22 directory if was downloaded from on the TFTP server. Of course, | |
| 23 if you specific absolute path, files can be placed anywhere in | |
| 24 the TFTP directory structure. This may break some setup but | |
| 25 an explicit error message is printed warning the user. | |
| 26 | |
| 27 - There were a bunch of important bug fixes, including handling | |
| 28 of paths when booting from the local disk. | |
| 29 | |
| 30 - Downloading of large files work with EFI versions prior to 14.60 | |
| 31 where there was a bug but also with the fixed version of EFI | |
| 32 starting at 14.60. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 - There were also some updates for elilo on IA-32. The loader | |
| 35 can load unmodified Linux kernel/initrd image from either the | |
| 36 local disk or via netbooting. Thanks to Matt Tolentino at Intel | |
| 37 for the IA-32 updates. | |
| 38 | |
| 39 - The ext2fs support code is still present but is not compiled in | |
| 40 anymore. This code does not understand ext3fs and might lead to | |
| 41 errors because it does not understand the journal. | |
| 42 | |
| 43 This package is known to compile and produce working binaries | |
| 44 when used in conjunction with gnu-efi-3.0a. This package is | |
| 45 available from the HP Labs FTP site: | |
| 46 | |
| 47 ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gnu-efi-3.0a.tar.gz | |
| 48 | |
| 49 For IA-64, a toolchain know to produce working binaries is: | |
| 50 gcc-3.1 | |
| 51 binutiuls 2.13.90 | |
| 52 | |
| 53 Your may have problems with newer toolchains due to some | |
| 54 dependencies in the gnu-efi package. Those dependencies | |
| 55 will be fixed eventually. | |
| 56 | |
| 57 For IA-32, the Redhat 8.0 toolchain is known to produce | |
| 58 working binaries when used with gnu-efi-3.0a + loader | |
| 59 script patch which is included in the gnu-efi-3.0a-ia32.patch | |
| 60 in this package. The toolchain includes: | |
| 61 | |
| 62 gcc: gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7) | |
| 63 as : GNU assembler version 2.13.90.0.2 (i386-redhat-linux) | |
| 64 using BFD version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802 | |
| 65 ld : GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802 | |
| 66 | |
| 67 The Redhat 9.0 toolchain does not work at the moment. | |
| 68 | |
| 69 For x86_64, a toolchain known to produce working binaries is: | |
| 70 gcc-4.1.1 or above | |
| 71 binutils-2.17.50.0.14 with Intel64 EFI support | |
| 72 For x86_64, the following libraries are required for the elilo build | |
| 73 gnu-efi library with x86_64 | |
| 74 | |
| 75 DOCUMENTATION: | |
| 76 -------------- | |
| 77 PLEASE READ THE docs/elilo.txt file for some documentation on how | |
| 78 to use this program. For netbooting refer to docs/netbooting.txt. | |
| 79 | |
| 80 Make sure you read the README.gnu-efi file for required packages. | |
| 81 |