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Bug#771465: Please add UEFI boot files to i386 and amd64 netboot images



retitle 768461 Please add UEFI boot files to i386 and amd64 netboot images
severity 768461 normal
tags 768461 patch
thanks

I recently had to reinstall jessie to my MacBook2,1 and found that the
Debian 8.2 i386 netinst image now works out of the box even with the
strange EFI implementation in this box. Many thanks to Steve McIntyre
for making this work, yay!

In general I like to do my installations with the netboot images,
since the 28 M image is sure to fit any USB stick which happens to be
at hand. It would be super-duper if the 32-bit and 64-bit EFI boot
files could also be added to these images, so that they too would
start to work like magic. For old intel MacBooks the EFI boot file
needs to be in the removable path, i.e. efi/boot/bootia32.efi

[I added the patch tag because the fix to this bug is known and
trivial, no patch attached though]

Best,
Teemu


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