Thanks for the good info Jim, may solve the grub menu thing not working.

I hope any of the developers may join the thread and give some information
about the topic.

/Daniel

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Cole, Jim <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I don’t know if this helps but I built a system to generate customized
> UEFI boot menus for standalone DVDs. It’s not all pretty or anything. The
> menu ends up being black/white vs the boot menus for BIOS.
>
>
>
> I start with a generic OS DVD from the distro and extract it to a folder.
>
>
>
> 1)      You need a partition under boot for the server you’re building
> and it needs to be vfat..this is a section of my UEFI kickstart
> file..200MBs seems fine:
>
> part /boot/efi --asprimary --fstype=vfat --label EFI  --size=200
>
> part /boot --asprimary --fstype ext4 --size=1024
>
>
>
> 2)      In my case of a standalone DVD, I have a script edit the
> EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.conf on the DVD:
>
> 1st to make it so the menu displays and to disable the timeout:
>
> sed -i -e 's/^timeout .*$/# timeout 5/' EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.conf
>
> sed -i -e 's/^hiddenmenu/# hiddenmenu/' EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.conf
>
>
>
> I append sections like this for each menu choice:
>
>
>
> title Install my application
>
>   kernel /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz ks=cdrom:/HPM/kickstart/hpmss_efi.ks
>
>   initrd /images/pxeboot/initrd.img
>
>
>
>
>
> 3)      Finally I regenerate the DVD(this was edited for UEFI):
>
>
>
> mkisofs -quiet -m RCS -joliet-long -o ${NEWDVD_LOC}/${ISO_NAME_FINAL} -V
> "mlsk${BUILD_DATE}" -A "${ISO_NAME_FINAL}"  -p "$USER@$(hostname)" -b
> isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size
> 4 -boot-info-table -eltorito-alt-boot -e images/efiboot.img -no-emul-boot
> -R -T -J -U -m TRANS.TBL ${NEWDVD_LOC_SRC} >/dev/null 2>&1
>
> ISO_RC=$?
>
>
>
> What I end up with is a bootable ISO that boots in either legacy/bios and
> UEFI and loads the OS properly. The UEFI menu is pretty stark but it works.
>
>
>
> *Thanks!*
>
> *Jim Cole*
>
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>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jochen Demmer
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 06, 2015 4:04 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [cobbler] Enable UEFI Red Hat support on Cobbler (2.6.7) -
> HOW?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> it's funny that you ask because I tried to set it up with cobbler 2.6.7,
> spacewalk 2.2 and UEFI for some days now.
> At some point I gave up because google couldn't spit me out enough usable
> information to get this running.
>
> I got the system to load grub, but no menu was displayed to select the
> corresponding kickstart entry...
>
> I would be very much interested in further information on this topic, too.
>
> Jochen
>
>
>  Am 06.05.2015 um 10:22 schrieb Daniel Kertby:
>
>   Anyone have got UEFI support to work in Cobbler?
>
> The support seems to be there in form of boot files etc... but it is
> completely integrated?
>
> BR,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Daniel Kertby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried to find info how to enable UEFI boot in Cobbler but without
> success.
>
> If I understand it correctly, dhcpd.template needs to be updated to
> support
> option arch = 00:07 (UEFI 64-bit)
> (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1168563)
>
> Is there any document describing how to do this?
>
> Cobbler complained on 'cobbler sync' after adding the if statement for
> adding option arch into dhcpd.template.
>
>  All help is appreciated,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
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