[elilo-discuss] eliloalt problems

[Keith O. <ka...@sg...>]

I have hit several problems with eliloalt, both in 3.4 and 3.5-pre1.

(1) In recent kernels, /proc/efi/vars has been replaced with
    /sys/firmware/efi/vars.  eliloalt needs to try /sys/firmware first,
    then drop back to /proc.

(2) If EliloAlt is defined but elilo.conf contains 'prompt' then elilo
    still issues the prompt and, when the prompt times out, elilo uses
    the default entry.  The alternate entry is effectively ignored when
    prompt is specified.

(3) initrd=filename only works if it appears in elilo.conf, it is
    ignored if you specify an initrd on the elilo command line.  This
    means that the alternate text cannot specify an initrd.