Bug#924053: live-build: UEFI shows grub> on HP250 G6 2SX60EA

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

Hi,

adrian15 wrote:
> I think this is highly unlikely because when you build an image designed
> to be used in a hard disk you do not use mkisofs.

It's spelled  x o r r i s o  nowadays :))

There are use cases like Knoppix: An ISO partition, an EFI partition,
and a writable ReiserFS partition which gets expanded up to the end
of the USB stick or hard disk.


> What I'm saying with all of this is that I'm going to propose a fix that
> involves not using any earmark (which involves too much work) but just
> searching for /.disk/info instead.

Consider to stay at least with the idea of a dedicated marker file
with a not-so-probable constant name.

The double-job of vmlinuz and the existence of an identical path on
another disk caused the problems in this bug report. If the searched
path would have been
  /live/this_is_a_debian_live_iso
then no change of kernel names could interfere. Any incidential path
equality would be unlikely, unless multiple debian-live ISOs are
involved.


> Hopefully Thomas you are not too bad at me. You seemed to be very
> excited with all of this earmark implementation ;) .

I am a bystander and tool provider here. Some aspects of the current
state of Debian ISOs appear sub-optimal to me. E.g. the EFI partition
inside the ISO filesystem rather than after it.

When the discussion comes to these, then i pop up with my pre-formatted
opinion.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas