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Hi everyone, for UEFI bootable media I currently use preloader+gummiboot while on BIOS media I use isolinux/extlinux. Since maintaining two configurations is some kind of extra work, I plan switching to syslinux in the next weeks or months. Creating an UEFI boot partition or El-Torito image seems easy: Use preloader, hashtool and the syslinux efi file, copy them to the FAT image and be

I have not looked into it all that much. But seems that UEFI basically allows booting without a bootloader. Here is some gentoo wiki info in it: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub_kernel And Greg Kroah-Hartman talking about it a bit: http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/ I am looking forward to making a little HOWTO, for this subject and also for using `mkdiskimage' with syslinux and vfat ( which i had a lot of fun playing with last night).