On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:00:27AM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2016, Patrick Welche wrote: > > > gptmbr.bin is just MBR code. You also need to put bootxx code in the > > > partition at index 1 with installboot. > > I doubt it's going to help or be what you are interested in, but most > systems have the ability to turn on "legacy BIOS" in the EFI interface > that allows the standard old rig to work. I do this with HP DL gen9 > servers because it cuts the post/boot time in half vis-a-vis EFI. However, > I realize a lot of folks want EFI to work etc.. Perhaps you are just > testing. > > My understanding is that EFI generally wants a FAT file system with a > /boot directory and it uses naming conventions to grab what it believes > is the first state loader. However, I know very little about EFI other > than "it usually doesn't work at this point". I'm sure there are good > things about it, I'm just not up-to-date with it. > > -Swift >
There currently is no official x86/uefiboot(8). I've got something WIP, but I need to reinvestigate toolchain options that have appeared since I put that project on the shelf.
