From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mohan Rajanna <mohan.ostfold@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UEFI booting Kernel without bootloader
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:49:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140816174937.GA17134@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFxKfpxre4KvgsbeWs5HSehf8VLDSLDAUfjGLQsicxuankCbtQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 05:24:08PM +0530, Mohan Rajanna wrote:
> Dear Elites,
>
>
>
> Since I am not supposed to ask questions directly to Greg, So posting my query
> to you all.
You shouldn't ever ask questions only to a kernel developer, that's what
a mailing list is for.
> Query:
>
> I am doing study on necessary changes required to boot Kernel
> and initrd directly from UEFI without boot loader support. I found very helping
> stuff in below link.
>
> http://www.kroah.com/log/
>
> Can I get concrete configuration steps for the same.
What did you try that did not work?
> What are the impact/dependencies if boot loader is not used ?
Upgrading a kernel version is totally different, you need to tell UEFI
about it, which is different from what distros currently do.
thanks,
greg k-h
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