Re: arm64 and isohybrid

2015-01-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > *grin* You're not selling this very much... :-) Do you complain about losing an item from your todo list ? How about you replace it by the intent to fix bug 776317: amd64 mini.iso : BIOS or EFI boot from CD or USB stick, with the complication to keep the firmware partition digestible for p

i386 EFI (and Mac builds)

2015-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, So, I've spent a lot of time hacking on things to get i386 and mixed amd64/i386 systems working with EFI in d-i, debian-cd, grub etc. I've blogged about this a fair amount too, so hopefully this shouldn't be a major shock to people. There's a few more things that will need unblocking and

Re: arm64 and isohybrid

2015-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 01:24:39PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre: >> I'm also *way* overdue on switching all of debian-cd over to using >> xorriso and using native xorriso options totally rather than the >> -as-mkisofs stuff equivalents. But that's a topic for another day... >

Re: arm64 and isohybrid

2015-01-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre: > I'm also *way* overdue on switching all of debian-cd over to using > xorriso and using native xorriso options totally rather than the > -as-mkisofs stuff equivalents. But that's a topic for another day... You will be a trailblazer. Nobody else does this, except me, when test

Re: arm64 and isohybrid

2015-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:41:57AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, Hi Thomas! >i wonder why my mail of Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:14:08 +0100 >does not show up in debian-cd mailing list. It reported about >a preliminary experiment with amd64 mini.iso. Easy; you just sent it to me directly, not to the