Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-09-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Let the work continue! Are there any result ISOs published yet ? I'd like to include them in my xorriso regression tests. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I believe that syslinux-efi works for less cases than grub-efi Discussions on syslinux mailing lists indicate that syslinux-efi does not work with optical drives. (And i know of no bootable ISO 9660 image which would have syslinux-efi in its El Torito boot image which

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-01-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, adrian15 wrote: > I propose you to send these concerns to live-wrapper project which has just > begun and it's advertised as highly modular by Iain. New customers ? Welcome ! > I think we should focus on making UEFI to boot and not re-thinking all the > bootloader handling. I well understa

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-01-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, after checking El Torito specs, i have to correct my statements about ranking of El Torito boot images. The first entry in the boot catalog not only has the title "Initial" but "Initial/Default". "4.4 Boot Entry Selection If the CD has several boot entries, a default entry which boots a ele

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-01-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, adrian15 wrote: > It seems you are proposing to add like three tags: Medium?, Firmware?, > Architecture? but I don't get how that would transform into options that the > final user can use. For now i only state that this is a model by which one can describe the purpose of boot loaders in an I

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-01-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~libburnia-team/libisofs/scdbackup/view/head:/doc/boot_sectors.txt adrian15 wrote: > I want to document the different ways of how BIOS boot, UEFI boot and > Secure Boot work and that might be helpful. Secure Boot is not covered. (I am not sure whether i

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-01-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, For the nomenclature: "USB" alone is misleading because there are also optical drives attachable to USB. Better distinguish the boot media families CDROM (CD, DVD, BD) and HDD (hard disk, USB stick, memory card, ...). adrian15 wrote: > Grub-pc would be the one installed to be boot but sysli

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-01-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michal Suchanek wrote: > -eltorito-alt-boot is not documented option of xorriso. You need to look into man xorrisofs for the options of the -as mkisofs emulation. -eltorito-alt-boot Finalize the current El Torito boot catalog entry and begin a new one. A boot image file and

Bug#731709: grub-efi UEFI support based on debian-cd work complete (repos)

2016-01-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, adrian15 wrote: > * What is it a secondary bootloader? > It's what happens when you request mkisofs that your bootloader to be > boot in second place or as a second partition. I don't know how it > actually works. An ISO may contain several lures for boot firmware. If it is booted from CD/