From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OEKvT-0006vH-CU for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 07:25:31 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54152 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OEKvP-0006sS-Au for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 07:25:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEKvK-0006Lb-Vd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 07:25:27 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]:34223) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OEKvI-0006L9-Ts for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2010 07:25:22 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so119651fgg.12 for ; Tue, 18 May 2010 04:25:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=65GhxIfD8UOmr9/a8fYUFk3I0aO+CmWOu490ETUThEk=; b=avb+MRaTjjM2Ua7TDjj871CcBgaqruR8yv9IV4wSfkEBE/mXQoDBNF446YUN2emzHW vGyKJ6fYJ0FUbh0QHc9x30g5XbS0GwGxGSfnOF587Q6/iqWcs016YXRLwKoE9P0VtXKM gSx417efULnnJTDOKEklEzPEkqdw81HZFyH7s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=LfVyHUbGDOsLJqMKhOcg3SdUHhLp+ITkd4RR9TJddb9XS5dZXp9izT5JJOGThpRRX7 ncTnX41+7PNd3ymMF9nOFIzHKfI74UNgP8OfUQmE9pyejLka43k2NiEaw5PlMqXPHmco h2061lnahBntlGP9JpgcT5Yqab7pDjpkbQq2o= Received: by 10.87.70.21 with SMTP id x21mr10631434fgk.62.1274181918751; Tue, 18 May 2010 04:25:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (hg-public-dock-208-dhcp.ethz.ch [82.130.80.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 19sm8882818fkr.39.2010.05.18.04.25.17 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 18 May 2010 04:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BF27916.40906@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 13:25:10 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4BF1B99C.5050807@gmail.com> <20100518111217.GK21862@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100518111217.GK21862@riva.ucam.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1EF4CEF82BC7F9F357E8805B" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Cc: Thomas Schmitt Subject: Re: Using efi image on USB stick X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 11:25:28 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1EF4CEF82BC7F9F357E8805B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcode= r' Serbinenko wrote: > =20 >> 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 wit= h >> a partition type 0xef pointing to the EFI image. >> =20 > > I ran across http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UEFI the > other day, which says that a number of BIOSes fail to handle multiple E= l > 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. > > =20 We and syslinux did it previously with no apparent problems --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig1EF4CEF82BC7F9F357E8805B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF4EAREKAAYFAkvyeRwACgkQNak7dOguQglgFAEAr0ep1uoNIm9WFWe2P27wINKo ZQWTr8OSEtvRKiIOz0cA/R7U9KhkwigRHc8+uQyYiNMgpNDEa2XDApoqDa5mLS8a =Qcpf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1EF4CEF82BC7F9F357E8805B--