Bug#812236: CD-Image does not boot with Libreboot/GRUB
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:48:27PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
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> See
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> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Doc/menu
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> for docs on isolinux menus. Grub's support for isolinux menus is
> clearly not complete/correct here, and that's your problem I'm
> afraid. Isolinux parses these menus just fine.
I digged deeper, and I guess this is correct. There are three problems
around here AFAICS:
1) Grub's implementation of invoking isolinux doesn't work correctly.
2) Grub's chainloading depends on BIOS/UEFI:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
| Chain-loading is only supported on PC BIOS and EFI platforms.
> It looks like a (design?) bug that Libreboot won't do normal boot
> sector booting like a conventional BIOS.
3) Libreboot doesn't provide the information for chainloading the same
way as BIOS/UEFI.
Most likely those issues have to be fixed in Grub. Maybe there is a
workaround to mitigate the problem with an intermediate USB-stick by
invoking SmartBootManager as payload (kernel), which doesn't depend
on chainloading at all. There are hints that this was done a couple
of years ago, but it looks difficult to reproduce this solution.
Some tests indicate that there might be
more issues with 16bit vs. 32bit mode.
--
regards
Frank
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