Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:57:24PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Jack Truong wrote:
>> I have copied the contents of efi.img to the FAT partition and it does boot
>> on my EFI firmware now. Thank you!
>
>So your EFI indeed hopped on that partition.
>Possibly only because it sees no other indication where to start
>the boot process.
>
>I now wonder whether the MBR partition 2 is actually intended
>as EFI System Partition.
>The partition type 0x01 generally indicates a FAT12 filesystem.
>An EFI partition should have type 0xef.
>
>Regrettably there is no file /.disk/mkisofs in the ISO which
>tells the used xorriso -as mkisofs options.
Yup. The *netboot* images are produced directly in the
debian-installer build, which doesn't have such things.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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