1 ELILO: the IA-32 and IA-64 Linux Loader
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3 Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
7 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Hewlett-Packard Co.
10 This package contains version 3.4 of elilo, the EFI boot loader
11 for IA-64(IPF) and IA-32(x86) EFI-based platforms.
16 Take a look at the Changelog for a detailed list of changes
19 - The major new feature of this release pertains to netbooting.
20 With elilo-3.4, the bootloader will look for files ONLY in the
21 directory if was downloaded from on the TFTP server. Of course,
22 if you specific absolute path, files can be placed anywhere in
23 the TFTP directory structure. This may break some setup but
24 an explicit error message is printed warning the user.
26 - There were a bunch of important bug fixes, including handling
27 of paths when booting from the local disk.
29 - Downloading of large files work with EFI versions prior to 14.60
30 where there was a bug but also with the fixed version of EFI
33 - There were also some updates for elilo on IA-32. The loader
34 can load unmodified Linux kernel/initrd image from either the
35 local disk or via netbooting. Thanks to Matt Tolentino at Intel
36 for the IA-32 updates.
38 - The ext2fs support code is still present but is not compiled in
39 anymore. This code does not understand ext3fs and might lead to
40 errors because it does not understand the journal.
42 This package is known to compile and produce working binaries
43 when used in conjunction with gnu-efi-3.0a. This package is
44 available from the HP Labs FTP site:
46 ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gnu-efi-3.0a.tar.gz
48 For IA-64, a toolchain know to produce working binaries is:
52 Your may have problems with newer toolchains due to some
53 dependencies in the gnu-efi package. Those dependencies
54 will be fixed eventually.
56 For IA-32, the Redhat 8.0 toolchain is known to produce
57 working binaries when used with gnu-efi-3.0a + loader
58 script patch which is included in the gnu-efi-3.0a-ia32.patch
59 in this package. The toolchain includes:
61 gcc: gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
62 as : GNU assembler version 2.13.90.0.2 (i386-redhat-linux)
63 using BFD version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802
64 ld : GNU ld version 2.13.90.0.2 20020802
66 The Redhat 9.0 toolchain does not work at the moment.
70 PLEASE READ THE docs/elilo.txt file for some documentation on how
71 to use this program. For netbooting refer to docs/netbooting.txt.
73 Make sure you read the README.gnu-efi file for required packages.