Will installation on BIOS systems with no ESP be supported in? 21.04?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2021, 23:17 -0400 schrieb Robert Heller:
> 
> Wondering aloud: will x86 flavor systems implement UBoot? UBoot is
> the
> defactor standard for ARM-based Linu SBCs (except Raspberry Pis).
> Seems to be
> alot simplier and straight forward, as opposed to the boot ROMs on
> x86 "PC"
> hardware.
> 
there are plenty of x86 based SBCs in the embedded space and all the
x86 chromebooks that use u-boot already ... 
the problem is that u-boot is really that, a bootloader for embedded
devices with a single purpose ... 

on standard PCs you want a multi purpose bootloader that is as flexible
and generic as possible so you can boot all imaginable combinations of
setups and OSes, with and without different secureboot implementations,
with the ability to chain-load any other possible bootloader, etc etc

if it was just "boot linux and nothing more, in one single setup" we
could have stayed with lilo ;)

ciao
	oli
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