[syslinux] Even more (U)EFI questions

[Dean Graff]

Mattias Schlenker  wrote:

> Am 22.01.2014 15:25, schrieb Dean Graff:
>
>  I have not looked into it all that much. But seems that UEFI basically
>> allows booting without a bootloader.
>>
>
> It does. In fact I usually use preloader.efi (with keytool.efi and
> hashtool.efi for secure boot) and gummiboot.x64.efi to boot EFI stub
> kernels on x86_64. But until short time a go I had no idea someone would
> try to sell 32 bit UEFI on computers with 64 bit processors.
>
>
>  I am looking forward to making a little HOWTO, for this subject and also
>> for using `mkdiskimage' with syslinux and vfat ( which i had a lot of fun
>> playing with last night).
>>
>
> On most UEFI implementations EFI boot from USB works from a thumb drive
> that has a single FAT partition and that even might be bootable on BIOS.
> Just /efi/boot/bootx64.efi has to be present, EFI reads the FAT filesystem.
> [...]
> If requested I'll write a tutorial on this kind of layout
>

Yeah I mean if you could write a guide on how to do this, that would be
really great.
thanks, dean