Re: arm64: Booting from USB with UEFI?
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:40:28PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >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.
>
>Ok, so I will add
>boot="bootable-usb;isohybrid-supported"
>to the arch-options file for arm64.
Cool.
>But that leads to another question:
>There is missing content for something like "Boot Device Selection",
>see
>http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch03s06.html#boot-dev-select
>for a similar chapter for i386.
>That one for i386 is probably not generic enough to fit for arm64 as well.
>If someone could provide some information how to select the boot device
>at arm64, that would be fine.
ACK. It's more like the "Systems with UEFI firmware" section there,
but also simpler - there's no need to mention CSM at all, nor Windows
8 etc. I'll try to come up with some text if nobosy beats me to it.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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