Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i took a look at grub-mkrescue.in with EFI and > implemented the EFI-only case in xorriso-0.5.5 > timestamp 2010.04.20.103448: > > Thanks, will test it later today. > --efi-boot FILE Set El Torito EFI boot image name and type > > Currently -b and --efi-boot override each other. > Who comes last will win. > --efi-boot is not yet immune against subsequent > -boot-info-table. It disables eventual previous > -boot-info-table, though. > > Due to an allergic reaction in libisofs, older > versions of xorriso are not be able to load > ISO images with boot catalog signature other than > 0 ("80x86"). > > ------------------------------------------------ > > > Next i will have to extend the libisofs model of > a single boot image to a model that can represent > an El Torito Multiple Boot-Image configuration. > > > But i have scruples about the semantics of > Platform ID which is global to the whole boot > catalog. It's not. The value in validation entry applies only to default image. Section header specifies the platform id of section entry (byte 1 of section header entry) > If yes: how do platforms 0x01 (Power PC) and > 0x02 (Mac) fit in there ? > > I wonder how these platform fit in spec at all. AFAIR PowerPC Macs use HFS(+). Idr seeing any eltorito PPC Mac bootable CDs. > ------------------------------------------------- > > > Development of grub-mkrescue and xorriso: > > Since we develop and fulfill new demands of > grub-mkrescue towards xorriso, we will need a > way to detect whether the locally installed > xorriso is able to fulfill them. > > > I can offer two ways for that: > > - xorriso -version > reports lines > xorriso version : 0.5.4 > Version timestamp : 2010.04.19.080001 > by which one can determine the development > state. > > - xorriso -as mkisofs -help 2>&1 > reports available commands. > My own test version of grub-mkrescue 1.98 uses > this to handle genisoimage, grub-mkisofs and > xorriso. > This method is also used by my tool scdbackup > for using a mkisofs range of 10 years, and a > xorriso range of 2 years. > > What about checking error status of xorrisofs --foo -o dummy.iso dummy/ ? > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko