Re: [edk2] Creating EFI System Partition

2018-06-15 Thread Rod Smith
On 06/15/2018 11:01 AM, Andrew Fish wrote: > >> On Jun 15, 2018, at 6:17 AM, Rod Smith > <mailto:rodsm...@rodsbooks.com>> wrote: >> >> but AFAIK, any common tool for creating a FAT32 filesystem should >> work. I generally do it with mkdosfs in Linux, but eq

Re: [edk2] Creating EFI System Partition

2018-06-15 Thread Rod Smith
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Re: [edk2] What Bios data is sent to the Bootloader/OS ?

2017-08-11 Thread Rod Smith
your purposes. I mention it simply so you don't think it's an issue if you read something about it elsewhere.) -- Rod Smith rodsm...@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbooks.com ___ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel

Re: [edk2] writing EDK compatible application.

2017-07-05 Thread Rod Smith
r configuration files, I've made some significant improvements to the compilation procedures under EDK2 (vs. GNU-EFI) since the latest 0.10.8 release. Thus, you should pull down the latest unreleased code via git, rather than download the source code tarball. -- Rod Smith rodsm...@rodsbooks.co

Re: [edk2] How can we identify an ISO file is an EFI bootable ISO image?

2017-06-20 Thread Rod Smith
ed to boot from an optical disc, even if it lacks the El Torito image. This is admittedly a corner case at best; but IMHO it's worth keeping in mind, since non-matching El Torito and ISO-9660 files could lead to user (or developer) confusion. -- Rod Smith rodsm...@rodsbooks.com http://www.r

Re: [edk2] EXT FS support

2016-11-22 Thread Rod Smith
GRUB, rEFInd, or some other tool, you can simply put the kernel(s) on a FAT filesystem. This is a common approach among Arch Linux users; they mount the ESP at /boot and it works pretty well. Some distributions assume that /boot supports links or other features that aren't availab

Re: [edk2] Help Required legacy booting from an EFI

2016-09-20 Thread Rod Smith
than what rEFInd does, but at least rEFInd's code does work. Thus, if you need a concrete example, the rEFInd code might be helpful. -- Rod Smith rodsm...@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbooks.com ___ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org ht

Re: [edk2] Gentoo Linux

2016-04-16 Thread Rod Smith
either wait for me to update rEFInd or patch rEFInd yourself. Please submit patches if you do the latter. (In the past, I've done "hard breaks" from one UDK201* release to another, and I'll consider doing the same for UDK2015.) -- Rod Smith rodsm...@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbook

Re: [edk2] Is there any exiting way in edk2 to format a partition with FAT file system?

2016-03-18 Thread Rod Smith
es to incorporating them into the mainline BSD-licensed EDK2. I know there was talk a while ago of creating a fenced-off GPL area for GPLed code related to EDK2, and I'd be happy to work with anybody who wanted to get gdisk into such an area. -- Rod Smith rodsm...@rodsbooks.com http://www.r

Re: [edk2] Reboot directly to UEFI firmware settings

2016-01-05 Thread Rod Smith
RebootIntoFirmware() function in rEFInd's refind/main.c file: https://sourceforge.net/p/refind/code/ci/master/tree/refind/main.c This function is borrowed from gummiboot (now systemd-boot), but I don't have an exact URL handy for the latter. I'm pretty sure that GRUB 2 has this functionality, t

[edk2] Can I determine from Linux if Secure Boot is supported?

2015-12-04 Thread Rod Smith
ux, whether or not a computer supports Secure Boot, even if it's currently disabled. If the SecureBoot variable can't provide this, is there some other way to do it? -- Rod Smith rodsm...@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbooks.com ___ edk2-devel mailin