On 7 April 2016 at 22:42, Anselm R Garbe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 April 2016 at 20:05, Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote: >> I like SYSLINUX, Lilo was a while goal but that is >> probably great too. I don't know if they can boot >> BSD but if they have their own bootloaders, you can >> chainload. > > SYSLINUX is 250k SLOC, of course it targets all kinds of different > boot approaches, but this seems far beyond a real suckless solution. > (just efi64 of SYSLINUX is 11k SLOC for instance). > > For sta.li development I'm currently tempting for ELILO which is > 14kSLOC and quite maintainable.
Minor remark: EFISTUB is not a real option, as I have encountered various issues with different UEFI implementations on a range of hardware so far. For example Dell's xps13 only looks at a specific FAT path to load the EFISTUB'ed kernel, which is really PITA. -Anselm PS: yes I have given up on legacy BIOS approaches...
