From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Using efi image on USB stick
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 13:03:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100518120311.GL21862@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF27916.40906@gmail.com>
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:25:10PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> 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.
The Fedora wiki page suggests that this is sadly not the case. I guess
all we can do is test ...
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-18 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-17 21:48 Using efi image on USB stick Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-05-18 11:12 ` Colin Watson
2010-05-18 11:25 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-05-18 12:03 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2010-05-18 12:44 ` Thomas Schmitt
2010-05-18 12:54 ` Colin Watson
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