On 11/30/2012 01:14 AM, Keshav P R wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/29/2012 06:06 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was planing to do a new snapshot on Saturday December 1st. I create a >>> test image today and also did an install without any issues. Am I right >>> that there are no changes in archiso itself worth a new tag? (at least >>> none that would affect the resulting image) >>> >>> Please let e know asap if there are any issues or you like to have some >>> bug fixes included. As I am a little late this time we could still >>> postpone this till next week if there are still things to do. >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Pierre >>> >> >> I need to do some quick test, I think should work with current packages. >> >> Yes there is only one commit in archiso, but does not modify the target, >> is just a cosmetic change. >> >> I guess UEFI with gummiboot is still broken on Asus motherboards, but I >> have no access during these time, to a machine with this firmware, to >> test and debug with gummiboot creators. >> >> > For now i suggest using refind-efi refindx64.efi with the following config: > > ---- (USB)/EFI/boot/refind.conf ---- > textonly > showtools about,reboot,shutdown,exit > scanfor manual > > menuentry "Arch Linux Archiso x86_64" { > volume ARCH_201212 > loader /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz > initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img
> ostype Linux
This is auto detected.
> graphics off
This is the default.
> options "add_efi_memmap archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201212"
add_efi_memmap: As said before I want to avoid any workaround by
default. Is this option is really needed on EFI, why is not enabled by
default when booting via EFI-stub loader?
> }
>
> menuentry "UEFI x86_64 Shell v2" {
> volume ARCH_201212
> loader /EFI/shellx64_v2.efi
> graphics off
> }
>
> menuentry "UEFI x86_64 Shell v1" {
> volume ARCH_201212
> loader /EFI/shellx64_v1.efi
> graphics off
> }
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> I don't have access to my laptop right now so I can't send a patch. In my
> Thinkpad E430 both gummiboot and rEFInd work fine.
>
> Regards.
>
> Keshav
>
I prefer to see gummiboot/gnu-efi fixed instead of switching again to
another EFI boot manager method. Maybe we get fixed it soon.
The change will be to syslinux, when 6.0 version appears.
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