Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Jan 02 2013 - 12:54:15 EST


On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:52:21PM -0500, Shea Levy wrote:

> But you can't set args when booting from external media (using e.g.
> \boot\efi\bootx64.efi), at least not on any system I've seen. And even
> if you could, that'd over complicate the install process for new
> users.

So have an initial wrapper that launches the kernel and passes an
argument. You're going to need something equivalent if you want to
support Secure Boot.

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