UEFI Bootmgr vs. FreeLdr

[Colin Finck]

Hi all!
Seeing the recent UEFI Bootmgr work in trunk, I was wondering about its
design.
Will that be a UEFI-only boot loader or eventually replace/merge with
FreeLdr to provide a common boot loader for BIOS and UEFI systems?
Will it simply follow all design principles of the NT6+ boot loader or
also implement some own ideas or take over those from FreeLdr?
For instance, I totally like FreeLdr's configuration through INI files
and would prefer that any day over NT6+ BCD registry hives.
Cheers,
Colin

[Thomas Mueller]

>   Seeing the recent UEFI Bootmgr work in trunk, I was
> wondering about its
>  design.
>  Will that be a UEFI-only boot loader or eventually replace/merge with
>  FreeLdr to provide a common boot loader for BIOS and UEFI systems?
>  Will it simply follow all design principles of the NT6+ boot loader or
>  also implement some own ideas or take over those from FreeLdr? 
>   For instance, I totally like FreeLdr's
> configuration through INI files
>  and would prefer that any day over NT6+ BCD registry hives. 
>   Cheers, 
>   Colin 
Does a UEFI Bootmgr imply that ReactOS will support GPT as opposed to MBR-only?
Tom

[David Quintana (gigaherz)]

No it does not imply that, but chances are it will regardless.
On 6 February 2017 at 05:05, Thomas Mueller <mueller6723(a)twc.com> wrote:
> >   Seeing the
> > recent UEFI Bootmgr work in trunk, I was wondering about its
> >  design.
> >  Will that be a UEFI-only boot loader or eventually replace/merge with
> >  FreeLdr to provide a common boot loader for BIOS and UEFI systems?
> >  Will it simply follow all design principles of the NT6+ boot loader or
> >  also implement some own ideas or take over those from FreeLdr? 
> >   For instance, I totally like FreeLdr's
> > configuration through INI files
> >  and would prefer that any day over NT6+ BCD registry hives. 
> >   Cheers, 
> >   Colin 
>  Does a UEFI Bootmgr imply that ReactOS will support GPT as opposed to
>  MBR-only?
>  Tom
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