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		hendry on Jan 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released Wonder why they use grub over the simpler syslinux option?

wener on Jan 30, 2019 [–]

Alpine use syslinux,will use grub if you install with uefi enabled flag.

hendry on Jan 30, 2019 | [–]

syslinux supports UEFI I think: https://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Install#UEFI

So I wonder what is the rationale for using Grub for bootloading UEFI systems.

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