ELILO: the IA-32,IA-64 and x86_64 Linux Loader ---------------------------------------------- Stephane Eranian August 2003 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co. Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Intel Co. This package contains version 3.7 of elilo, the EFI boot loader for IA-64(IPF),IA-32(x86) and x86_64 EFI-based platforms. RELEASE NOTES: -------------- Take a look at the Changelog for a detailed list of changes since 3.3a. - The major new feature of this release pertains to netbooting. With elilo-3.4, the bootloader will look for files ONLY in the directory if was downloaded from on the TFTP server. Of course, if you specific absolute path, files can be placed anywhere in the TFTP directory structure. This may break some setup but an explicit error message is printed warning the user. - There were a bunch of important bug fixes, including handling of paths when booting from the local disk. - Downloading of large files work with EFI versions prior to 14.60 where there was a bug but also with the fixed version of EFI starting at 14.60. - There were also some updates for elilo on IA-32. The loader can load unmodified Linux kernel/initrd image from either the local disk or via netbooting. Thanks to Matt Tolentino at Intel for the IA-32 updates. - The ext2fs support code is still present but is not compiled in anymore. This code does not understand ext3fs and might lead to errors because it does not understand the journal. This package is known to compile and produce working binaries when used in conjunction with gnu-efi-3.0a. This package is available from the HP Labs FTP site: ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gnu-efi-3.0a.tar.gz For IA-64, a toolchain know to produce working binaries is: gcc-3.1 binutiuls 2.13.90 Your may have problems with newer toolchains due to some dependencies in the gnu-efi package. Those dependencies will be fixed eventually. For IA-32, the Redhat 8.0 toolchain is known to produce working binaries when used with gnu-efi-3.0a + loader script patch which is included in the gnu-efi-3.0a-ia32.patch in this package. The toolchain includes: gcc: gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7) as : GNU assembler version 2.13.90.0.2 (i386-redhat-linux) using BFD version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802 ld : GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802 The Redhat 9.0 toolchain does not work at the moment. For x86_64, a toolchain known to produce working binaries is: gcc-4.1.1 or above binutils-2.17.50.0.14 with Intel64 EFI support For x86_64, the following libraries are required for the elilo build gnu-efi library with x86_64 DOCUMENTATION: -------------- PLEASE READ THE docs/elilo.txt file for some documentation on how to use this program. For netbooting refer to docs/netbooting.txt. Make sure you read the README.gnu-efi file for required packages.