Re: live-wrapper 0.4 working for me with both UEFI and BIOS

Good work with live-wrapper.

Here is my efforts so far.
I have completed a MATE build (Stretch) and trying to run it with qemu ends with a kernel panic in qemu.

Virtualbox isn't working for me in Stretch so nothing happens at all.

Run the same iso in Windows 10 (I need it for work unfortunately) through virtualbox and everything works as it should.
I am very impressed and congratulations are in order for a solid effort on live-wrapper.

I have just tried to put the iso on a usb with rufus and test it out on an actual machine. Rufus reports a problem.

"Unsupported ISO

When using UEFI Target Type, only EFI bootable ISO images are supported. Please select an EFI bootable ISO or set the target type to BIOS"

Using MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI-SCM works, now I need to test if the iso transfers properly and will boot on an EFI machine. Will report back later.

Cheers.

Michael.

On 25 October 2016 at 05:50, Michael . <keltoiboy@gmail.com> wrote:

That's good news Ben thanks for posting.

On 24 October 2016 at 21:14, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> wrote:
Iain,

thanks very much for your efforts on live-wrapper. I can confirm that 0.4 fixes #831367, #831368, and #831637 and that I can build a working minimal isohybrid image, choosing the unstable distribution to get a 4.7.8 kernel with support for recent CPUs (e.g. Skylake). As root:

lwr -d unstable

Both of these QEMU command lines then succeed and give me a usable console (using hda as a model for booting from a thumb drive).

UEFI boot (as you note in the docs, this requires the ovmf package for the tianocore firmware):

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -m 1024 -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd -hda live.iso

BIOS boot:

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -m 1024 -hda live.iso

I have not yet tried booting from a physical thumb drive.

Thanks again, Iain. Much appreciated.

Kind regards,

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand