On 04/26/17 04:59, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 26 April 2017 at 02:02, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi via arch-releng < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/24/17 01:51, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >>> I think it would be cool to have the EFI splash screen show the same >>> graphical image that the syslinux boot loader has. I played around a >> little >>> to try to get it to work but failed. I used the systemd test as a basis >> for >>> that [1]. >>> >>> Thoughts on pretty EFI boot loader? >>> >>> [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/dd8352659c9428b19670 >> 6d04399eec >>> 106a8917ed/test/test-efi-create-disk.sh >>> >> >> EFI boot is a bit problematic in some hardware and many of these issues >> come from graphics management. I prefer to keep things in the safe place >> of simple. Maybe adding a fancy logo makes the system unable to boot. >> >> > Ok. One thing though: Can we use syslinux for EFI and bios boot? Then we > might be able to have fewer separate parts in the system as currently we > use a separate EFI boot loader. I know that some years back there were > concerns about syslinux not being able to boot EFI properly in all cases > but those issues might have been resolved in the mean time. In that case we > will get the pretty splash for free. >
I love Syslinux, but for EFI is not a good idea, sometimes become broken on Linux changes and seems totally broken on EFI-PXE.
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