Comment 10 for bug 1811496
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 1811496] Re: Make grub-ipxe work under UEFI | #10 |
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 09:51:11PM -0000, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
> We talked a lot about secure boot, so let me clarify that the initial
> issue, that my included patch addresses, is unrelated to secure boot.
> The current grub-ipxe package hangs the computer under UEFI (with secure
> boot disabled), as it does "linux16 ipxe.lkrn".
> With the patch, it will boot ipxe.efi fine.
> This change doesn't involve the grub2 source package at all; grub-ipxe
> comes from the ipxe source package.
Right, and I am not objecting to making this change to the ipxe packaging,
I'm simply pointing out the limitations (we have no plans to sign the
binary because it's redundant with our standard boot stack, so it won't work
on SecureBoot systems).
UEFI also has a built-in network stack and I've yet to encounter a UEFI
system with a network card that didn't have a UEFI driver, so I am doubtful
that ipxe even adds value here for the non-SB case.