Bryan J Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > SIDE NOTE: Only elilo (EFI lilo) [2] was built for F7-12, but EL6 > (based on F12/F13) shipped with a patched GRUB 0.97 for EFI support > instead. The elilo approach was required for early Intel IA-64 > (Itanium) support, prior to 64-bit uEFI options in the IA-32e/EM64T > (aka AMD64/x86-64) world with GRUB 0.97+patches or GRUB 2. IA-64 > support in Red Hat platform products end with EL5. > ... > [2] > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/search?terms=.*lilo.*&type=package&match=regexp > ... > It is possible to use LILO boot an absolute LBA/sector, such as > DeviceMapper allocated block (e.g., DM-LVM2), whereas GRUB (v1) > cannot. There are a few other cases where knowing LILO is helpful > for, especially non-PC BIOS, like early IA-64 EFI. > ...
For completeness, in case anyone is interested in the elilo history [3] for the IA-64 target. ;) [3] https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/name_overview.pxt?package_name=elilo&archIdList=501&archLabelList=IA-64 -- Bryan J Smith - Professional, Technical Annoyance http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
