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Re: Using efi image on USB stick
From: |
Colin Watson |
Subject: |
Re: Using efi image on USB stick |
Date: |
Tue, 18 May 2010 13:03:11 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
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 ...
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Colin Watson address@hidden