On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:40:28PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: >Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >What's the state here? >> >Can arm64 boot directly from USB? >> >> Bugger. That's a mistake, yes. Quite a few (most?) of the arm64 UEFI >> platforms will boot from USB, and we've been making iso-hybrid CD >> images to support that ever since Jessie. > >Ok, so I will add >boot="bootable-usb;isohybrid-supported" >to the arch-options file for arm64.
Cool. >But that leads to another question: >There is missing content for something like "Boot Device Selection", >see >http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch03s06.html#boot-dev-select >for a similar chapter for i386. >That one for i386 is probably not generic enough to fit for arm64 as well. >If someone could provide some information how to select the boot device >at arm64, that would be fine. ACK. It's more like the "Systems with UEFI firmware" section there, but also simpler - there's no need to mention CSM at all, nor Windows 8 etc. I'll try to come up with some text if nobosy beats me to it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich
