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Re: Using efi image on USB stick
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
Subject: |
Re: Using efi image on USB stick |
Date: |
Tue, 18 May 2010 13:25:10 +0200 |
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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.
> I don't know how well
> BIOSes handle MBR partition tables on CD-ROMs.
>
>
We and syslinux did it previously with no apparent problems
--
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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