Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko wrote: > >> Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered >> how to make same iso bootable on EFI as both cdrom and usb stick. For >> this it's needed in addition to el-torito to add a partition table with >> a partition type 0xef pointing to the EFI image. >> > > I ran across http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UEFI the > other day, which says that a number of BIOSes fail to handle multiple El > Torito boot images correctly. You seem to be taking a somewhat > different approach; does it avoid this problem? We still need 2 El Torito images. I was just discussing how to make it bootable when dd'ed to USB stick. We keep BIOS El-torito image first in catalog so buggy BIOSes should still handle it correctly. > I don't know how well > BIOSes handle MBR partition tables on CD-ROMs. > > We and syslinux did it previously with no apparent problems
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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