Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Ady on the syslinux list has repeatedly argued against people > suggesting that syslinux-efi will work for disk/CD hybrid media. Ady emphasized that it does work with HDD. It was others and me who pointed out that nobody ever could show success with CD-ROM on real iron

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 18:35 +, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 17:18 +0100, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > > Hey Luca, > > > > > At a quick glance it all sounds good to me, although I can't say > > > I > > > have > > > a lot of experience with syslinux. > > > > Ok. > > > > > For fea

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Matthijs, There's quite a lot of text here - I hope it helps! :-) On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:18:42PM +0100, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > >> For feature parity, I'd encourage to look into supporting Secure Boot >> like the grub-efi implementation does, since we are preparing to ship >> that in De

Re: hp-plugin installation woes on Debian Live

2019-02-14 Thread James Lu
Hi everyone, A while ago I did my own digging on this issue, and I've found that a simple workaround to force hplip to use sudo can be done by setting: [authentication] su_sudo=sudo inside ~/.hplip/hplip.conf On 2019-02-14 8:33 a.m., Simon McVittie wrote: > I'm not sure I see how this is relate

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Gah, missed this bit... ] On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... >Maybe Steve McIntyre can contribute an anecdote how he came to the >decision in debian-cd to use GRUB2 for EFI and thus to create the need >for two independent boot menu configurations. We already h

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey folks, On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:35:48PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: ... >Regrettably there is still no official position towards the failure with >SYSLINUX EFI code booting via El Torito from optical media. >But already the inventor of the "isohybrid" program's --uefi option, >Matthew J.

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 17:18 +0100, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > Hey Luca, > > > At a quick glance it all sounds good to me, although I can't say I > > have > > a lot of experience with syslinux. > > Ok. > > > For feature parity, I'd encourage to look into supporting Secure > > Boot > > like the gr

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Andreas Heinlein
Am 14.02.2019 um 17:35 schrieb Thomas Schmitt: > Maybe Steve McIntyre can contribute an anecdote how he came to the > decision in debian-cd to use GRUB2 for EFI and thus to create the need > for two independent boot menu configurations. I am only taking a guess here, but maybe he just took over so

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > > > https://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid#UEFI I wrote: > > This describes the equipment of debian-live and debian-cd [...] > I'm a bit confused by your message. When you say "This", are you > referring to the syslinux isohybrid page? Yes. The do

Re: hp-plugin installation woes on Debian Live

2019-02-14 Thread Simon McVittie
I'm not sure I see how this is related to backports. On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 16:35:52 +0100, Ronny Standtke wrote: > On Debian Live we have the followig setup: > > The user "user" has full sudo access without any password: > $ cat /etc/sudoers.d/live > user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > The user "r

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hey Luca, > At a quick glance it all sounds good to me, although I can't say I have > a lot of experience with syslinux. Ok. > For feature parity, I'd encourage to look into supporting Secure Boot > like the grub-efi implementation does, since we are preparing to ship > that in Debian 10. It's no

hp-plugin installation woes on Debian Live

2019-02-14 Thread Ronny Standtke
Hi all, On Debian Live we have the followig setup: The user "user" has full sudo access without any password: $ cat /etc/sudoers.d/live user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL The user "root" has no password: # cat /etc/shadow | grep root root:*:17941:0:9:7::: Up to hplip version 3.18.10 in stretch-ba

Bug#922251: live-build: support syslinux-efi as (additional) bootloader

2019-02-14 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Thomas, > > it seems isohybrid can include a small FAT filesystem with the > > bootloader files. [...] > > https://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid#UEFI > > This describes the equipment of debian-live and debian-cd (DVD-*, BD-*, > netinst) ISOs. See e.g. debian-live-9.5.0-i386-x