Development; live-build EFI support

hhh · 2016-08-01 22:28:17

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … 731709#335

https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/ … _rebased_9

email wrote:

AttachmentsJul 31 (1 day ago)

to Michal, Thomas, 731709, Raphaël, jnq, Gaudenz, me
1) I'm glad Michal finally agrees with the overall implementation of multi bootloaders support.
2)
I have squashed some commits were it made sense.
I have fixed some commits descriptions.
I have removed a whitespace.
Here's the new rebased branch:
https://github.com/rescatux/live-build/ … _rebased_9
git diff betweenefi_support_based_on_debian_cd_rebased_7 and efi_support_based_on_debian_cd_rebased_9 shows only a whitespace as a difference, so I have not even bothered to test this new branch.
3) wCPO from debian-live irc is willing to pull it.
Is there anyone else than can provide feedback on this patch / branch?
Either by:
* Installing live-build with this applied patch
* Building your iso and check if it boots in both BIOS and UEFI mode.
* Check non usual UEFI machines.
I suspect it's fine to wait for one week for feedback.
After that time I'll try to request a proper pull / insertion into Debian's live-build repo and probably into live-build package binaries.
adrian15

This is very promising. Maybe as a separate testing ISO for deuterium, we have a lot of stuff being added to 'stable' as it is. Anyway, I'll try to test this when life permits and post back.

There are always posts asking about this (at least one in the last day or two), please point them to this thread.

Horizon_Brave · 2016-08-04 13:47:04

Hmm this is going to sound unbelievably newbish, but I've always been thumbs with git and GitHub... How would I go about finding and downloading the iso with the uefi support to download for test purposes?

damo · 2016-08-04 13:57:20

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Hmm this is going to sound unbelievably newbish, but I've always been thumbs with git and GitHub... How would I go about finding and downloading the iso with the uefi support to download for test purposes?

The github repo is for live-build, so you would need to build that and then use it to build your own iso. Or wait until some kind person builds a deuterium+efi iso and uploads it for you to test

Horizon_Brave · 2016-08-04 18:25:59

No. It's time HB puts on the man pants, and build's it himself. ..........

I use the make command right? Any tutorials on compiling something from a github like this? I have it downloaded, but to me it just looks like a bunch of random files...

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-08-04 18:52:35

Horizon_Brave wrote:

I use the make command right?

No.

Try:

git clone https://github.com/rescatux/live-build.git && cd live-build && git checkout rescatux-0.40b7
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../*.deb

damo · 2016-08-04 18:56:09

This one looks like can you do...

1) D/L and extract the zipfile
2) cd to the extracted directory
3)

sudo make install (or uninstall)

...but installing a package is generally thought to be safer

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