Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-12-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Raphaƫl Hertzog wrote: Note that we disabled a test on the xorriso version in use (in binary_iso) as we had better results with the old method in use before xorriso gained knowledge of registering the EFI image as an alternate eltorrito boot record. Please give me more details about this

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-12-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Thomas Schmitt wrote: How was the result from older xorriso better than from the newer one ? Which particular version produced better, which version produced the worse image ? It's not about a particular version of xorriso, but about the set of command-line options

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-12-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, It's not about a particular version of xorriso, but about the set of command-line options that we use depending on the xorriso version No regression then. :) Were the problems with CD/DVD or with USB sticks ? In our tests, there are more computers where EFI boot works (from an USB

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-12-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Raphael Hertzog: EFI boot [...] (from an USB key) me: Were the problems with CD/DVD or with USB sticks ? Please ignore this obsolete question of mine. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-12-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Control: tag -1 patch On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 03/28/2014 11:00 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I worked on EFI boot support for Kali's live+installer image and this resulted in the attached patch for live-build 3.0.5. thanks. however, i'm not in favour of merging that for

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-03-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, thank you for flying xorriso. I already asked at debian-cd why the option -isohybrid-apm-hfsplus is used with a boot image that contains a FAT filesystem. The option advertises the FAT in an Apple Partition Map as HFS+ partition. It is rather intended to advertise a HFS+ image for booting

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-03-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014, Thomas Schmitt wrote: It is rather intended to advertise a HFS+ image for booting Macs according to http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html . So my question here too: Is there any system known which would demand the EFI image to be presented in an Apple Partition Map as

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-03-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 03/28/2014 11:00 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: I worked on EFI boot support for Kali's live+installer image and this resulted in the attached patch for live-build 3.0.5. thanks. however, i'm not in favour of merging that for following reasons: * it's against 3.x instead of 4.x * syslinux

Bug#731709: Preliminary patch for EFI boot support in live-build

2014-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, I worked on EFI boot support for Kali's live+installer image and this resulted in the attached patch for live-build 3.0.5. Some comments: * The patch can't be used as-is because it assumes that syslinux 6 is packaged like syslinux 4 in wheezy (eg almost everything in syslinux-common).