Re: Are GNU/kFreeBSD 7 images isohybrid?

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Adam Wilson wrote:
> Are GNU/kFreeBSD 7 images isohybrid?

Formally not, because "isohybrid" is a term from ISOLINUX and the
kFreeBSD ISOs rather boot by GRUB2.

Practically not, because e.g.

  http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/7.9.0/kfreebsd-amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.9.0-kfreebsd-amd64-netinst.iso

does not have an MBR.

It is well possible to build kfreeBSD GRUB2 ISOs which boot from USB
stick. This here

  https://kfreebsd.eu/~stevenc/d-i/installer-kfreebsd-amd64/current/images/netboot-10/mini.iso

does by

  qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -hda mini.iso

But instead of moving the selection bar in the boot menu, the
Up/Down keys toggle between a blue-green readable menu and a
purple menu which is displaced in X and Y direction.
Maybe i should give it a hard disk to play with ?

Whatever, the same happens if i boot it as qemu -cdrom.

With EFI boot firmware, one will have to enable BIOS emulation,
because there is no EFI System Partition advertised in mini.iso.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas