Working on UEFI development

If you are working on UEFI/EFI development, here's a good site to visit:

http://feishare.com/

According to the site, FEI stand for Firmware Encoding Index

Fedora 16 Native EFI installation

Its been a while since my last post.
To get Fedora 16 installed through EFI, Besides the similar steps in Fedora 14 installation where you need to copy the vmlinuz and initrd.img from the Fedora 16 installation disk, you need a minor modification in the elilo.conf to make the installation work in Serial Console.
Here's the additional text in red you need for Fedora 16 installation from EFI through Serial Console

prompt
timeout=50
default=Linux


image=vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  initrd=initrd.img
  append="console = ttyS0, 115200n8 serial"

Fedora Core 14 Native EFI installation

Here's the steps you can take to perform a Fedora Core 14 installation in EFI environment

1) Copy the vmlinuz and initrd.img from Fedora Core 14 installation disc to a pendrive
3) Compile elilo from http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo/ and place it to the path where vmlinuz and initrd.img were copied
4) Create and add the following text to elilo.conf.

default=install
prompt


image=vmlinuz
    label=install
    description="Install"
    initrd=initrd.img

5) Place the Fedora Core 14 installation disc in your DVD ROM and Execute elilo.efi in EFI shell
6) Your installation should start by now.
7) Optional: Add the following line to the elilo.config if you need to redirect to serial console
    append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"


Alternative for elilo.conf to find FC14 installation disc
prompt
timeout=50
default=Linux


image=vmlinuz
  label=Linux
  initrd=initrd.img
  append="console = ttyS0, 115200n8"