Bug#693891: Fails to boot in UEFI mode on Dell PowerEdge R520
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 08:09:35PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> will hopefully fix a number of the issues we're seeing with UEFI.
>
>What problems are there in particular ?
We've had a few (admittedly vague, in some cases) reports of boot
failures. Some are probably grub, but some include machines apparently
just not recognising our boot media. We'll just have to see if we get
any more feedback.
>Similar as with BIOS we have two main starting points of booting:
>El Torito for CD, DVD, BD.
>GPT for hard disk and alike.
>But i do not know whether the distinction between both is as strict as
>it is with BIOS. I.e. we possibly have to expect CD booting via GPT.
I don't think so, but who knows what the vendors might do... :-)
>Then there is APM in test5 which would be for Macs.
>Do you already have test feedback from those ?
Not yet, no. Anyway, I've switched daily/weekly production over to
xorriso 1.2.6 now. So all of our images should get the latest and
greatest features (and bugs :-))...
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