Re: [ipxe-devel] appnote/debian_preseed instructions are wrong

2020-08-12 Thread Etienne Champetier
Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 17:04, Christian Nilsson a écrit : > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 14:55 Etienne Champetier, > wrote: >> >> Hi Christian, >> >> Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 14:42, Christian Nilsson a écrit : >> > >> > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 13:30 Michael Brown, wrote: >> >> >> >> On 12/08/2020 08:50,

Re: [ipxe-devel] appnote/debian_preseed instructions are wrong

2020-08-12 Thread Christian Nilsson
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 14:55 Etienne Champetier, wrote: > Hi Christian, > > Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 14:42, Christian Nilsson a > écrit : > > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 13:30 Michael Brown, wrote: > >> > >> On 12/08/2020 08:50, Etienne Champetier wrote: > >> >>> The automagical construction of CPIO a

Re: [ipxe-devel] appnote/debian_preseed instructions are wrong

2020-08-12 Thread Etienne Champetier
Hi Christian, Le mer. 12 août 2020 à 14:42, Christian Nilsson a écrit : > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 13:30 Michael Brown, wrote: >> >> On 12/08/2020 08:50, Etienne Champetier wrote: >> >>> The automagical construction of CPIO archives is indeed for legacy BIOS >> >>> only. On UEFI, we provide the k

Re: [ipxe-devel] appnote/debian_preseed instructions are wrong

2020-08-12 Thread Christian Nilsson
On Wed, 12 Aug 2020, 13:30 Michael Brown, wrote: > On 12/08/2020 08:50, Etienne Champetier wrote: > >>> The automagical construction of CPIO archives is indeed for legacy BIOS > >>> only. On UEFI, we provide the kernel with a virtual filesystem from > >>> which it can load arbitrary files withou

Re: [ipxe-devel] appnote/debian_preseed instructions are wrong

2020-08-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 12/08/2020 08:50, Etienne Champetier wrote: The automagical construction of CPIO archives is indeed for legacy BIOS only. On UEFI, we provide the kernel with a virtual filesystem from which it can load arbitrary files without needing a CPIO wrapper. Do you have a working exemple (maybe I ne

Re: [ipxe-devel] appnote/debian_preseed instructions are wrong

2020-08-12 Thread Etienne Champetier
Hi Michael, Le lun. 3 août 2020 à 15:00, Etienne Champetier a écrit : > > Hi Michael > > Le lun. 3 août 2020 à 14:30, Michael Brown a écrit : > > > > On 03/08/2020 12:03, Robin Smidsrød wrote: > > > I seem to recall that this initrd/cpio magic described in the document > > > only works on legacy