Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader
Hey folks,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
...
>Regrettably there is still no official position towards the failure with
>SYSLINUX EFI code booting via El Torito from optical media.
>But already the inventor of the "isohybrid" program's --uefi option,
>Matthew J. Garrett equipped his Fedora ISOs by EFI software from GRUB2
>together with BIOS software from SYSLINUX. (Plus some HFS+ filesystem
>image pointed to by an Apple Partition Map.)
>Maybe Steve McIntyre can contribute an anecdote how he came to the
>decision in debian-cd to use GRUB2 for EFI and thus to create the need
>for two independent boot menu configurations.
>
>Klaus Knopper, on the other hand, believes that it could work on some
>machines. But he tested only with virtual machines and i found no
>confirmation that it works on any real iron in native EFI mode from DVD.
>See e.g. this 4 GB image:
> http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V8.2-2018-05-10-EN.iso
Ady on the syslinux list has repeatedly argued against people
suggesting that syslinux-efi will work for disk/CD hybrid media. I've
not looked at the code to see why - I have no desire to, :-)
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
The two hard things in computing:
* naming things
* cache invalidation
* off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
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