Re: arm64: Booting from USB with UEFI?
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 09:32:46PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
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>
>Hi,
>
>in the installation-guide there were some changings for arm64 architecture,
>being worked on by wookey and 93sam:
>see
>https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/manual/en/boot-installer/arm.xml?r1=69757&r2=69774
>and
>https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/manual/en/boot-installer/arm.xml?r1=69776&r2=69781d
>
>
>That resulted to this:
>-----<quote>---------------
>
> <sect2 arch="arm64" condition="bootable-usb" id="usb-boot">
> <title>Booting from USB Memory Stick with UEFI</title>
>
>&boot-installer-intro-usb.xml;
>
>-----</quote>---------------
>
>However, this chapter does not appear in the installation-guide for
>arm64, because arm64 is not declared to be "bootable-usb" in the
>arch-options file.
>
>What's the state here?
>Can arm64 boot directly from USB?
Bugger. That's a mistake, yes. Quite a few (most?) of the arm64 UEFI
platforms will boot from USB, and we've been making iso-hybrid CD
images to support that ever since Jessie.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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