#40 Short review of GAG (Tech)

[Guus Bonnema]

I want to point you to a small review I found at Tech Republic :

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/review-gag-the-graphical-boot-loader/?tag=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101&ftag=TRE684d531

The overall criticism is positive: the reviewer is enthousiastic about your software. The one reservation he has is about GPT and I quote:

"Really, the only downside I've noticed is the lack of support for machines with the next generation Extensible Firmware Architecture setup and GPT volumes. Because GAG is GPT-unaware, GAG won't be able to detect volumes set up in that layout mode. Your best option at this point is to consider using GRUB instead. "

Is there a chance you will be able to support GPT in the future?

Guus.

[Sergio Costas Rodriguez]

Hi Guus:

Unfortunately, the answer is "no". Gag is an old piece of software,
written directly in assembler (not in a high-level language like C), so
it would be a pain to port it to UEFI.

Sorry.

El 23/09/13 11:17, Guus Bonnema escribió:

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[feature-requests:#40] Short review of GAG (Tech)

Status: open
Labels: GPT
Created: Mon Sep 23, 2013 09:17 AM UTC by Guus Bonnema
Last Updated: Mon Sep 23, 2013 09:17 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

I want to point you to a small review I found at Tech Republic :

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/review-gag-the-graphical-boot-loader/?tag=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101&ftag=TRE684d531

The overall criticism is positive: the reviewer is enthousiastic about your software. The one reservation he has is about GPT and I quote:

"Really, the only downside I've noticed is the lack of support for machines with the next generation Extensible Firmware Architecture setup and GPT volumes. Because GAG is GPT-unaware, GAG won't be able to detect volumes set up in that layout mode. Your best option at this point is to consider using GRUB instead."

Is there a chance you will be able to support GPT in the future?

Guus.

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[Tuomo Latto]

Unfortunately, the answer is "no". Gag is an old piece of software,
written directly in assembler (not in a high-level language like C), so
it would be a pain to port it to UEFI.

I don't think anyone needs the full UEFI support (quite just yet anyway).
However, it would be nice if there was a simple way of booting partitions on a secondary (or even primary) GPT drive.

Now, I'm first to admit that I don't know much anything about the subject, but I think it might be enough to read the GPT on the drive, get the partition offsets that way and then proceed as usual. I mean, what else is there?

I'd really hate the emergence of 3TB drives to kill off this bootmanager. It's probably the best one out there.