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 [e-mail] 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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