Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-02-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ian Campbell: Thank you (again?) for all the excellent info you've provided here and in your followups. I hope this does not mean that enough is said on that topic. It seems (IMHO only) that mini.iso is mostly useful for d-i developers to dev test the netboot installer images without

Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-02-01 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 17:03 +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Thank you (again?) for all the excellent info you've provided here and in your followups. I did not guess too bad with my repacking experiment. But this does not explain how the empty FAT partition got to the end of mini.iso I see in

Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-02-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 05:59:26PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i just realize that the xorriso run in http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/config/x86.cfg does not produce an isohybrid image. Therefore one currently cannot simply omit the isohybrid run in

Re: arm64 and isohybrid

2015-02-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 06:59:44PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, *grin* You're not selling this very much... :-) Do you complain about losing an item from your todo list ? Certainly not. :-) How about you replace it by the intent to fix bug 776317: amd64 mini.iso : BIOS or EFI boot from CD

Bug#776317: Jessie RC1 amd64 mini image missing efi bootloader

2015-02-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:57:24PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Jack Truong wrote: I have copied the contents of efi.img to the FAT partition and it does boot on my EFI firmware now. Thank you! So your EFI indeed hopped on that partition. Possibly only because it sees no other indication