Here is some information on Gummiboot which give some insight to the bootmanagers abilities. http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/gummiboot.html. See here for a fairly comprehensive comparison of booloaders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders.
If the intention is to use gummiboot to simply chainload grub2 so that boot information can be passed to systemd then this may have some advantages if one wished to optimise the already satisfactory boot times then there may some justification for a change. If the intention is to replace the current bootloader entirely then the following should be considered. 1. A significant amount of time and effort has been expended by a number of individuals to ensure that Grub2 EFI works properly on our distribution. Much work has been done to also ensure that dual-booting with Windows 8/8.1 is functional. Changing at this stage represents a sever waste of resources and is demotivating for all those involved 2. Our current bootloader approach both for iso's and installed systems has been evaluated on many different types of hardware over two releases. We cannot say this for Gummiboot. 3. Grub2 contains pre-written scripts to allow automated update of the the configuration when new or different kernels are installed. Gummiboot does not support this. Though there may be third party tools that address this deficiency. 4. Gummiboot offers no GUI though there is the ability to display a bootsplash. 5: If at some point we wish to support secure boot (we will probably be forced into it eventually) gummiboot cannot use Fedora's shim approach to secure boot. On the plus side though gummiboot will most likely work with Linux Foundations Pre-Boot loader an alternative to Fedora's shim 6: Some consideration should be given to timescales we are very behind on the release plan; adding another "new" thing which has the possibility of creating further delay may be unwise. The leading question is "how will gummiboot be used?" Colin Close QA Team _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
