Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-12 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 19:05 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i managed to build a live-build ISO. > Its /boot/grub/efi.img contains >   /efi/boot/bootia32.efi >   /efi/boot/bootx64.efi > which both show by "strings" the embedded configuration with >   search --file --set=root /.disk/info >

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i managed to build a live-build ISO. Its /boot/grub/efi.img contains /efi/boot/bootia32.efi /efi/boot/bootx64.efi which both show by "strings" the embedded configuration with search --file --set=root /.disk/info The ISO 9660 filesystem contains a file /.disk/info So the riddle is why

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Luca Boccassi wrote: > You can build such an image with the default configuration, Will try to learn from the man pages. (Nevertheless an ISO would be faster to grasp and also avoid any configuration differences.) > you'll see that there is no grub.cfg in there, hence this bug report. A

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-09 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Fri, 2018-03-09 at 14:28 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I assume that the above image has been > > built with live-wrapper and here the bug report and the patch is > > about > > live-build > > I silently assumed live-wrapper because my examples >  

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I assume that the above image has been > built with live-wrapper and here the bug report and the patch is about > live-build I silently assumed live-wrapper because my examples debian-live-8.4.0-i386-standard.iso debian-live-8.4.0-amd64-standard.iso both tell

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Thomas, you forgot to cc the bug reporter, I'm not sure that he saw your email. On Thu, 08 Mar 2018, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > i wonder why the built-in configuration of the EFI boot file does not work: > # mount debian-live-9.3.0-amd64-xfce.iso /mnt/iso I think you are not speaking of the

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wonder why the built-in configuration of the EFI boot file does not work: # mount debian-live-9.3.0-amd64-xfce.iso /mnt/iso # mount /mnt/iso/boot/grub/efi.img /mnt/fat # strings /mnt/fat/efi/boot/bootx64.efi | tail -4 search --file --set=root /.disk/info set prefix=($root)/boot/grub

Bug#892406: live-build: UEFI boot fails on SuperMicro dev board with AMI bios

2018-03-08 Thread Luca Boccassi
Package: live-build Version: 1:20171207 Tags: patch Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, On some UEFI implementations, like the AMI found on the SuperMicro X10SDV-TP8F dev board, the fat32 partition will be loaded first and so Grub will set it the root, and then drop to the console as it cannot find