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. st...@einval.com The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
