On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:46:36PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi, > >and thanks! > >Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> (19/09/2012): >> Here's an updated set of patches for d-i packages for EFI support on >> x86. Mostly identical to previous versions, but ported forwards to >> current head. Bigger changes: >> >> * I've tweaked partman-efi a little after swapping email with Colin >> * I've dropped elilo patches, let's just go with grub-efi >> >> Please review and commit, or give me commit access so I can do it >> myself! :-) >> >> After this, I'll make some tweaks to the d-i build scripts to make EFI >> boot images at build time, using efi-image. At the moment I have this >> in debian-cd for easier testing for me, but it really belongs in d-i >> to get build-deps as needed. Then I'll merge my debian-cd EFI branch >> onto trunk. Then we'll get EFI by default for x86 builds! \o/ > >All committed and uploaded, except for grub-installer. There are some >bits of logic for /proc handling, maybe that could be reused/united with >the /sys and /proc you need? Maybe umount once you're done?
Could do, I guess... Any clues on where to look? >Also, it looks to me like there's a missing grub-gfxpayload-lists in the >dpkg -P call in the grub-pc case? Probably better to just drop that mention altogether, it's an Ubuntu-specific package AFAICS. >I guess it would be nice to call for help testing the dailies once >grub-installer is finally patched and uploaded? Catching any regressions >before beta 3 freeze would be nice… Definitely, yes! >Christian, new template as mentioned in <[email protected]> >for partman-efi's debian/partman-efi.templates: > >+Template: partman-efi/too_small_efi >+Type: error >+# :sl5: >+_Description: EFI partition too small >+ EFI boot partitions on this architecture cannot be created with a size less >+ than 35 MB. Please make the EFI boot partition larger. I hope we won't need any more than this... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
