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LiveCD with Extensible Firmware Interface Support

PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:59 am
by anony
There are new machines that use Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), not the ordinary PC BIOS.

Example: new Apple computers with Intel CPU.

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

http://www.apple.com/imac/

Is there any Linux LiveCD with EFI support?

http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/firmware/

http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/links.htm

PostPosted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:46 am
by nick
I believe the Gentoo and Ubuntu 4.10 Itanum LiveCDs have EFI support, but i'm not aware of any x86 LiveCDs that do.

Also there's an EFI Boot loader on sourceforge. I don't know if it'll run off a CD, but it's open source, so if it doesn't, maybe someone will add that support.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo