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". T

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 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 opt

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 t

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 th

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 M

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 Mac

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).