On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 12:12:35PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> (2015-01-31): >> So, I've spent a lot of time hacking on things to get i386 and mixed >> amd64/i386 systems working with EFI in d-i, debian-cd, grub etc. > >Great. > >> As an explanation: turning on i386 EFI is an easy thing, but it will >> cause some older x86 Macs to stop being able to boot Debian >> installation media. They have broken firmware which breaks when more >> than one boot method is available on CD media (in this case, BIOS boot >> and EFI boot). So, if we want to continue supporting these users we'll >> need to provide a/some special Mac flavour(s) of i386 install >> disc. I'm proposing that we make *only* a special Mac flavour of the >> netinst, and I've already started working on that locally in >> debian-cd. >> >> So... How does that sound? We'll need to add more docs for this, of >> course, and it's likely to confuse *some* users which bothers me. > >It's definitely tricky to get that right indeed. There's so much >confusion around netinst vs. netboot in people's mind… but yeah, we >can't hold i386 EFI back because of some old, buggy hardware, even if >it's as widespread/famous as Macs. Pointing people to the right doc / >image is something that shouldn't take us too much time once doc has >been written/updated. Supporting newer hardware seems more important >to me than keeping a flawless experience for older hardware (with all >images that is, as long as we keep support for it through netinst…).
OK, cool. :-) I pushed the changes and I've added initial Mac netinst support, but for now it's very much untested... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150206111518.gc8...@einval.com
