Another bugbear of mine: bootloaders on UEFI systems are a redundant hack.
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Another bugbear of mine: bootloaders on UEFI systems are a redundant hack. The UEFI is fully capable of booting an OS on its own. The Linux kernel supports this, by adding an EFI stub to the kernel image, allowing it to be run like anything else in UEFI land.
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@mos_8502
As farvas I know, we can't add kernel parameters at boot time, UEFI would need something more like the old Sun PROM for that.I don't even think you can from EFIShell, but if you can, doesn't that just become another boot manager?
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@leeloo I would solve that by having a kernel argument that put up a prompt for extra parameters before continuing.
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@mos_8502
So some kind of console, before you can enter the parameter that prevents the kernel from showing a blank screen. -
@leeloo Like, maybe the kernel checks the keyboard for something being held down, I don't know, SysRQ maybe, and if it finds it it offers you a "kernel boot prompt" that lets you add to the boot arguments.
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Ethan Blantonreplied to mos_8502 :verified: last edited by