Re: u-boot

On 9/7/25 9:08 pm, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is https://u-boot.org/about/ an interesting alternative to GRUB?
>
I'm familiar with U-Boot. The description as a boot loader can be 
confusing, because it runs as the firmware. So U-Boot does the same as 
OpenFirmware does. It lives in a boot ROM and boot straps the machine. 
But it can act as both firmware and boot loader since it can also boot 
media directly. I wasn't aware of it being used as a middle man boot 
loader and a brief search revealed it can be. But it would likely be too 
much work to give an alternate to both GRUB and yaboot.


Another possibility is using the Mac method with a bootable volume you 
can chose from the GUI boot menu. But I'm not aware of anyone coding a 
way for Linux to do that. Although I had expected it to be used before I 
found how PPC Linux boots on a Mac.