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* > > Technical Subject Matter Expert, Implementation Services > > Strategic Intelligence > McKesson Connected Care Analytics > > [email protected] > > *Office*: (515) 978-1770 > > > > > > > > > > *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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cobbler mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > > -- > > *Jochen Demmer* > Administrator > T: +49-(0)241-4131146-29 > [email protected] > > peakwork AG | Sonnenweg 15 a | D-52070 Aachen > T: +49-(0)241-4131146-29 | F: +49-(0)241-4131146-17 > > peakwork AG (Headquarter) | Flinger Str. 36 | D-40213 Düsseldorf > T: +49-(0)211-91368-500 | F: +49-(0)211-91368-509 > > Executive board: Ralf Usbeck (chairman) | Markus Pfau | Michael Schmidt > Chairman of the supervisory board: Markus Voelkel > Company register: Amtsgericht Düsseldorf HRB 71223 > VAT ID.: DE264960677 > > [image: Peakwork Logo] > www.peakwork.com | www.peakwork.de > > [image: Peakwork Logo] > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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