[syslinux] Changes to get CD to boot on EFI System.
Ady
ady-sf at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 4 09:14:23 PDT 2016
> I'm not sure which is the intent of the El Torito spec and perhaps more
> importantly, what reality looks like, w.r.t. UEFI - whether it expects
> that the boot image is a partition or an EFI executable.
>
Neither. For booting optical media in UEFI mode (and, please let's
leave comments about isohybrid out at this point) you need a
partitionless (aka superfloppy) of less than 32MiB, with some
additional alignment.
I am purposely leaving out further / advanced possibilities. Let's not
be picky. I would suggest solving the basic case first, and we can
discuss further developments / options / alternatives later.
Peter, see the attachment in:
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2015-October/024526.html
for an example of what "should" eventually work in the future (when
syslinux.efi gets the relevant capabilities).
Regards,
Ady.
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