Bug#658352: amd64 UEFI support

2012-02-02 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Package: debian-cd Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Since a lot of PCs will have an amd64 UEFI instead of a BIOS in the next years, it would be useful to offer the possibility to install an UEFI-bootable Debian system, which requires to have an

Bug#658352: amd64 UEFI support

2012-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i read on http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00168.html For optical media, I am not really sure: it may use ElTorito or load a file /efi/boot/bootarch.efi from the ISO-9660 or UDF filesystem, so this should be checked. GRUB2 grub-mkrescue can produce (U)EFI bootable ISO 9660

Bug#658352: amd64 UEFI support

2012-02-02 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Thomas Schmitt, 2012-02-02 12:52+0100: For optical media, I am not really sure: it may use ElTorito or load a file /efi/boot/bootarch.efi from the ISO-9660 or UDF filesystem, so this should be checked. GRUB2 grub-mkrescue can produce (U)EFI bootable ISO 9660 images, where booting shall

Bug#658352: amd64 UEFI support

2012-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Regular El Torito then. At least grub-mkrescue makes it that way. Better ask a grub-devel for advise and options. UEFI booting requires a GPT and a special partition, which would probably be impossible to implement along with the MBR hack for hybrid booting. I am clueless enough to