Re: Help with debian-cd's UEFI boot on a Debian derivative
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 05:13:44PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to use debian-cd to build an image for a Debian derivative (aka
>Kali Linux). I'm using this version of debian-cd:
>http://http.kali.org/pool/main/d/debian-cd/debian-cd_3.1.15kali1_all.deb
>
>It's plain debian-cd 3.1.15 with just a few supplementary symlinks "kali"
>pointing to "wheezy" in tasks/, data/ and tools/boot/.
Hmmm, OK.
>Now I'm trying to generate images with those changes to CONF.sh:
> # Name of the distribution for the image filename (Defaults to 'debian')
>-# export CDNAME=debian
>+export CDNAME=kali
>
> # Building wheezy cd set ...
>-export CODENAME=wheezy
>+export CODENAME=kali
>[...]
>-export MIRROR=/srv/mirror/debian
>+export MIRROR=/ext/mirror/kali
>[...]
>-# export NONFREE=1
>+export NONFREE=1
>[...]
>-# export FORCE_FIRMWARE=1
>+export FORCE_FIRMWARE=1
>[...]
>-export DISKTYPE=CD
>+export DISKTYPE=NETINST
>[...]
>-#export MAXCDS=1
>+export MAXCDS=1
>[...]
>-#export OMIT_MANUAL=1
>+export OMIT_MANUAL=1
>[...]
>-#export OMIT_DOC_TOOLS=1
>+export OMIT_DOC_TOOLS=1
>
>And I build the image with "make official_images". The build seems to work fine
>but the resulting image doesn't boot with UEFI. I get a grub screen but
>whenever I select an entry, grub tells me:
>> error: unknown command `linux'.
>> error: unknown command `initrd'.
>>
>> Press any key to continue...
That suggests a problem in the grub search path for loading modules, maybe?
>Yet the file structure seems exactly the same than for an official Debian ISO image.
>And building an official Debian images in the same environment yields a fully working
>ISO image. So I'm wondering what I can have missed. Do you have an idea of what could
>be wrong ?
>
>Note that Kali rebuilds debian-installer images with newer snapshots of d-i because we track
>newer kernels as well. But we have the same grub packages.
>
>Here's the possibly relevant changes in the diff comparing the file listing of both
>images:
>--- debian-7.0-amd64-NETINST-1.filelist 2014-07-08 16:19:24.206922498 +0200
>+++ kali-7.0-amd64-NETINST-1.filelist 2014-07-08 16:19:47.834925117 +0200
>@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/efi_uga.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/elf.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/ext2.mod
>+/mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/extcmd.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/fat.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/fixvideo.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/font.mod
>@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/msdospart.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/multiboot2.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/multiboot.mod
>+/mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/ntfscomp.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/ntfs.mod
> /mnt/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/ohci.mod
Hmm. I'd be worried about grub changes here. What happens if you use
the Debian grub package instead?
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone
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