Howdy! Mathieu Othacehe <othac...@gnu.org> skribis:
>> drops me in the GRUB rescue shell right from the start, but I think >> that’s because the command surprisingly builds an EFI image, as can be >> seen from the generated genimage.cfg: > > Yep, that would be because of the Grub stripping issue. Regarding the > EFI, both the qcow2 and the efi-raw image types produce "hybrid" images > that have "grub" installed in the MBR-gap and "grub-efi" in the ESP > partition. This way, those images can be used both on legacy BIOS based > machines as well as on more modern UEFI machines. Oh I hadn’t realized there was this fancy hybridation thing. > Now the image types names can be confusing, and we could rename efi-raw > and qcow2 to pc-hybrid-raw and pc-hybrid-qcow2 respectively. OTOH the beauty of those hybrid images is precisely that one doesn’t need to know that it’s hybrid. Dunno, no strong opinion! Thanks for explaining, Ludo’.
