Hey,
yes, the ISO currently still uses grub1 on x86. I migrated my personal system
to EFI grub2, including the extra effort to get it running on PowerPC.
EFI Grub 2 T2 with full disk encryption can shortly be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=457zniNGVfU
The ISO glue still needs to be updated for grub2 support.
René
On May 2, 2017, at 15:23, Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> scsijon wrote:
>> Try, http://dl.t2-project.org/binary/unstable/9.0-trunk/
>
> Let's have a look.
>
> t2-9.0-r45574-minimal-i586_cd1.iso boots only from CD, DVD, or BD medium
> via BIOS or EFI BIOS Emulation.
> It does not boot by SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX image file isolinux.bin but rather
> by an image file named /boot/grub/stage2_eltorito . Its content has the
> text "GNU GRUB 0.97-os.8". So it is from GRUB Legacy, not from the well
> maintained current GNU GRUB 2.
> I find no traces in the web that a file named ldlinux.c32 belongs to GRUB
> or GRUB Legacy. So with both GRUBs it is not to expect that ldlinux.c32
> would have any job to do.
>
> t2-9.0-r45574-minimal-x86-64_cd1.iso has the same boot opportunity from
> optical media via boot image /boot/grub/stage2_eltorito .
>
>
> Well, the decision for GRUB is not too bad. But one should consider to
> migrate to GRUB 2. Its program grub-mkrescue builds a bootable ISO,
> depending on the configured processor architectures and firmwares.
> The resulting ISO for the full x86 firmware spectrum boots via BIOS and EFI
> from optical media (e.g. CD) and from HDD (e.g. USB stick).
>
> Most Linux distros use ISOLINUX for BIOS and GRUB 2 for EFI, because SYSLINUX
> EFI software does not operate CD-ROM outside the EFI System Partition.
> Only recent Knoppix 8 uses SYSLINUX for EFI by a 15 MB System partition
> with a complete small Linux in it.
>
> Purely GRUB 2 based ISOs are quite rare. Only small distros use it for now.
> But one has to say that GRUB 2 has several developers, whereas SYSLINUX
> is quite orphaned upstreams.
>
> The reason to stay with ISOLINUX for BIOS is mainly due to the ISO makers'
> conservativism. Nevertheless, ISOLINUX booting from USB stick suffered
> since 2009 from a bug which prevented booting on BIOSes which do not
> announce to support LBA addressing on hard disks.
> So the quality benefit of such conservatism is well questionable.
>
>
> ==========================================================================
> Maybe off topic:
>
> Is it normal to get from one mail to [email protected] two notifications
> from foreign mail providers that the mail was not delivered to some
> unrelated mail addresses ?
>
> From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
> ...
> host mx2.mail.hostpoint.ch [217.26.49.139]: 550 SPF-check failed:
>
> and
>
> From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) - SPF
> ...
> Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.x.0 - Message bounced by administrator (delivery
> attempts: 0)
>
> www.openspf.net says about the first rejection:
>
> mxin013.mail.hostpoint.ch rejected a message that claimed an envelope
> sender address of [email protected].
> mxin013.mail.hostpoint.ch received a message from mx.exactcode.de
> (144.76.154.42) that claimed an envelope sender address of [email protected].
> However, the domain gmx.net has declared using SPF that it does not send
> mail through mx.exactcode.de (144.76.154.42). That is why the message was
> rejected.
>
> I understand that the mailing list tells those mail servers that the
> resent mail was from me, whereas my mail provider GMX tells SPF that it
> does not use the mailing list server to send mails from my address.
>
> This effect is exotic to me. No other mailing list causes it.
> Is it that the subscribers here have so odd providers or is it that
> mx.exactcode.de is not fully suitable for mails that come from GMX ?
> (Explanation for non-germans: GMX is big in germany. Not exotic at all.)
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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