Greg KH schrieb:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:21:29AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Greg KH schrieb:
No, all we need is to enable EFI stub support in the kernel, and
integrate the initramfs using CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and place it in
some location where UEFI looks for it
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I really would like Gentoo to support a self-signed secure boot
framework (obviously this would be for after the system is installed).
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444830
You can see how such framework works by
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 11:57:13PM -0500, Fernando Reyes wrote
iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or
any removable media by just running the following commands.
# isohybrid image.ISO
# did if=image.ISO of=/dev/sdb bs=8192k
sdb being your removable
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:37:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote
Not necessarily, as I'm finding out with real hardware. My only options
on the box I have is to either zero out all keys, or specifically tell
the BIOS what binary to run (doesn't need to be signed, and can not be
changed after telling
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:31:25AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:37:56PM -0800, Greg KH wrote
Not necessarily, as I'm finding out with real hardware. My only options
on the box I have is to either zero out all keys, or specifically tell
the BIOS what binary to run
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote:
Matthew's frontend shim code is nice and tiny, but the one I am
referring to provides the ability to enroll your own keys in the BIOS,
which shim does not.
I just tried shim in OVMF, and it provides an interface to enroll keys
/
On 9 December 2012 05:04, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:
Fernando Reyes wrote:
iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or
any removable media by just running the following commands.
# isohybrid image.ISO
Please send a patch to the gentoo-catalyst@ list
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote:
I think it is possible to use the unetbootin utility to make the
minimal iso image boot from a USB flash disk.
Just make the real thing…
https://github.com/mkdesu/liberte/blob/master/src/root/mkimage
--
Maxim Kammerer
Peter Stuge schrieb:
Fernando Reyes wrote:
iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or
any removable media by just running the following commands.
# isohybrid image.ISO
Please send a patch to the gentoo-catalyst@ list which adds this as
an optional step in
Fernando Reyes schrieb:
The problem with the isohybrid approach is that it doesn't support UEFI
booting and this is why I wouldn't recommended as a feature in catalyst.
However, this should be documented somewhere so that users know its possible
without having to follow the liveusb guide
That's what meant since we use isolinux on the release media and until
syslinux-6 we are forced to use another bootloader and grub seems out of the
questions because of licensing issues. I will test new syslinux soon and see
how isohybrid and isolinux plau together on an EFI bios.
Chí-Thanh
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Fernando Reyes
likew...@weboperative.com wrote:
grub seems out of the questions because of licensing issues.
What licensing issues? Just distribute the source. If the Gentoo
Foundation goes into the hardware business and starts distributing
hardware that only
I don't know the details of the issue but I know that I was prevented from
using grub on the livedvd.
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Fernando Reyes
likew...@weboperative.com wrote:
grub seems out of the questions because of licensing issues.
What
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Fernando Reyes
likew...@weboperative.com wrote:
I don't know the details of the issue but I know that I was prevented from
using grub on the livedvd.
Well, if some perceived legal constraint is keeping us from doing
whatever seems to be technically most
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:13:38PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Fernando Reyes
likew...@weboperative.com wrote:
I don't know the details of the issue but I know that I was prevented from
using grub on the livedvd.
Well, if some perceived legal constraint is
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote:
The FSF has already said that using Grub2 and the GPLv3 is just fine
with the UEFI method of booting, so there is no problem from that side.
There's a statement about this somewhere on their site if you are
curious.
The only
Fernando Reyes schrieb:
That's what meant since we use isolinux on the release media and until
syslinux-6 we are forced to use another bootloader and grub seems out of the
questions because of licensing issues. I will test new syslinux soon and see
how isohybrid and isolinux plau together
Then let's get UEFI support on our release media and out the box usb booting so
users don't have to go boot other livecds.
likewhoa
Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:13:38PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Fernando Reyes
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 07:46:59PM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Fernando Reyes schrieb:
That's what meant since we use isolinux on the release media and until
syslinux-6 we are forced to use another bootloader and grub seems out of
the questions because of licensing issues.
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:35:57PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Greg KH gre...@gentoo.org wrote:
The FSF has already said that using Grub2 and the GPLv3 is just fine
with the UEFI method of booting, so there is no problem from that side.
There's a statement
On 12/09/2012 01:46 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Fernando Reyes schrieb:
That's what meant since we use isolinux on the release media and until
syslinux-6 we are forced to use another bootloader and grub seems out of the
questions because of licensing issues. I will test new
Greg KH schrieb:
No, all we need is to enable EFI stub support in the kernel, and
integrate the initramfs using CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and place it in
some location where UEFI looks for it (/efi/boot/bootx64.efi).
This has the disadvantage of not allowing to pass additional kernel
likewhoa schrieb:
interesting and probably something we can get away with since not all
users actually touch the kernel line but some do so it might not be a
smart option to disable kernel parameters on UEFI only systems.
The kernel parameters are not disabled, they just have to be specified
On 09/12/2012 19:59, Greg KH wrote:
The UEFI spec does not allow that mode of operation in secure boot mode,
sorry. You will have to disable it in order to boot a Gentoo image,
which is fine, but there's no reason why Gentoo can't use the MS-signed
shim bootloader like all other distros are
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò
flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote:
On 09/12/2012 19:59, Greg KH wrote:
The UEFI spec does not allow that mode of operation in secure boot mode,
sorry. You will have to disable it in order to boot a Gentoo image,
which is fine, but there's no reason
On 10/12/2012 01:52, Rich Freeman wrote:
The shim might work, but I'd hardly call it secure boot if every
motherboard manufacturer and OEM in the world has the ability to sign
things, even if MS vouched for them all. Even if I installed Windows
I'd want the ability to re-sign it with a key I
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
# isohybrid image.ISO
Please send a patch to the gentoo-catalyst@ list which adds this as
an optional step in the catalyst livecd2 target in a nice way, and
file a bug with updated ebuilds for catalyst which add the dependency.
Bug was already
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò
flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote:
On 10/12/2012 01:52, Rich Freeman wrote:
The shim might work, but I'd hardly call it secure boot if every
motherboard manufacturer and OEM in the world has the ability to sign
things, even if MS vouched for them
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 01:24:53AM +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
On 09/12/2012 19:59, Greg KH wrote:
The UEFI spec does not allow that mode of operation in secure boot mode,
sorry. You will have to disable it in order to boot a Gentoo image,
which is fine, but there's no reason why
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 07:52:16PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò
flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote:
On 09/12/2012 19:59, Greg KH wrote:
The UEFI spec does not allow that mode of operation in secure boot mode,
sorry. You will have to disable it in
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:08:01PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò
flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote:
On 10/12/2012 01:52, Rich Freeman wrote:
The shim might work, but I'd hardly call it secure boot if every
motherboard manufacturer and OEM in the
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:21:29AM +0100, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
Greg KH schrieb:
No, all we need is to enable EFI stub support in the kernel, and
integrate the initramfs using CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE and place it in
some location where UEFI looks for it
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote:
I have never once been able to grab a portage snapshot and build a
stage 1, 2, 3 series from it without encountering at least a couple of
problems with the tree.
Ditto - the latest issue I've run into is: 443472. Probably
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On 12/08/2012 06:50 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote:
I have never once been able to grab a portage snapshot and build a
stage 1, 2, 3 series from it without encountering at least a
Matt Turner wrote:
I think we should consider things that break release media serious
regressions.
I think we should consider things that break anything serious
regressions.
Why should release media be more special than anything else?
My email and bugzilla sweep a few days ago was during a
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:55:04PM -0800, Pawe?? Hajdan, Jr. wrote
The serious problem here is that we need *new* users. A non-working
install CD is a really bad thing here, don't you think? ;-)
While we're at it, can we please also make a USB-key install ISO?
I'm not asking merely because
iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or any
removable media by just running the following commands.
# isohybrid image.ISO
# did if=image.ISO of=/dev/sdb bs=8192k
sdb being your removable device. Also keep in mind that any data on sdb will be
wiped after
Fernando Reyes wrote:
iirc the minimal install CD ISO is capable of booting from a USB device or
any removable media by just running the following commands.
# isohybrid image.ISO
Please send a patch to the gentoo-catalyst@ list which adds this as
an optional step in the catalyst livecd2
The problem with the isohybrid approach is that it doesn't support UEFI booting
and this is why I wouldn't recommended as a feature in catalyst. However, this
should be documented somewhere so that users know its possible without having
to follow the liveusb guide which is probably outdated by
Hey people, what are we going to do with bugs like:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421839
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445848
I'd like to help with things. Is the process of building livecd .isos
and stages documented somewhere? I'd like to reproduce problems locally,
work on
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote:
Hey people, what are we going to do with bugs like:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421839
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445848
I'd like to help with things. Is the process of building livecd
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