Re: [Xen-devel] Start xen on UEFI system with grub

[Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:22:52 +0000
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> > > I believe the only issue was the check to do the  Multiboot-E820 parsing
> > > before the E801 parsing? Perhaps that has already been done?
> > 
> > That's in all 4.x trees already. But no - the other important aspect
> > is that without retrieving/passing on the proper EFI table pointers,
> > on a legacy free system Xen and Dom0 won't be able to locate the
> > ACPI tables.
> 
> How does this work with native Linux? AIUI the most common way to boot
> regular Linux is using grub-efi.

The preferred way to boot Linux on an EFI platform is to build an EFI
Linux kernel and just let EFI run it. This is supported from 3.3 onwards.
All you then need is one of the innumerable EFI boot chooses that are
springing up (rEFInd, Gummiboot etc) or use the UEFI Shell or efibootmgr

Alan

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