Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered how to make same iso bootable on EFI as both cdrom and usb stick. For this it's needed in addition to el-torito to add a partition table

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered how to make same iso bootable on EFI as both cdrom and usb stick. For this it's needed in addition to

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:25:10PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:48:12PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered how to make same iso

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Colin Watson wrote: I don't know how well BIOSes handle MBR partition tables on CD-ROMs. According to ECMA-119 (aka ISO 9660) the first 32 kB of an image are System Area with arbitrary custom content. El Torito specs mention that this area may contain a bootable disk image. (Figure 1, case

Re: Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:44:09PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Colin Watson wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UEFI : Many BIOS implementations, ... do not correctly handle the multiple El-Torito boot blocks El Torito specs (of 1995) talk of BIOS with Single

Using efi image on USB stick

2010-05-17 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thanks to Seth Goldberg's and Jordan Uggla's testing it was discovered how to make same iso bootable on EFI as both cdrom and usb stick. For this it's needed in addition to el-torito to add a partition table with a partition type 0xef pointing to the EFI image. What do you think the best way to