On Fri, 2016-10-14 at 17:50 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > nullity.resea...@gmail.com wrote: > > not only used to dual boot to Windows. efitools is used to manipulate > > uefi boot parameters. if you compile two kernels with efistub, you can > > choose which kernel to boot from efitools, just place them on your efi > > boot partition and create entries in your efi boot table using the > > program. > > > That's what grub does and grub is easier. > > -- Bruce > > >
I too do not have Windows. Infact I don't even have efi hardware. The reason I need it are for my VM builds which do use efi. (I wanted to learn how efi works.) The VMs boot up with grub. I have a script which creates a new blank VM disk with the lfs tools chain. One of the commands in this script is grub-install. grub-install requires efibootmgr being present when constructing a x86_64-efi target. As a side note, when I build grub, I build it twice for the two targets that I use, i386-pc and x86_64-efi. Regards, Wayne, -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
