Feature #4413: Make full-host bootdisk image UEFI compatible - Boot disk - Foreman

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Feature #4413

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Make full-host bootdisk image UEFI compatible

Added by Arnold Bechtoldt about 10 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

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Normal

Assignee:

Lukas Zapletal

Target version:

1.4.3

Difficulty:

medium

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Bugzilla link:

1261802

Pull request:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_bootdisk/pull/33, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_bootdisk/pull/62, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_bootdisk/pull/64, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_bootdisk/pull/93

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Please make the ISO bootable on UEFI based systems. On a lot of servers and consumer hardware UEFI boot is enabled by default.

Unfortunately BIOS isn't available on some systems (e.g. consumer hardware for testing purposes).

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Related to Foreman - Tracker #431: [TRACKER] UEFI PXE support

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Lukas Zapletal

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Updated by Dominic Cleal about 10 years ago

Unfortunately I don't have easy access to any UEFI hardware - would you be able to test a version of bootdisk if I provided a test package? Which OS do you use, if so?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/BootableCDsForBIOSAndUEFI has some notes on changes to mkisofs.

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Updated by Arnold Bechtoldt about 10 years ago

Sorry for my late reply.

Unfortunately I don't have easy access to any UEFI hardware - would you be able to test a version of bootdisk if I provided a test package?

Sure

Which OS do you use, if so?

Foreman runs on Debian Wheezy.

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Updated by Bryan Kearney over 9 years ago

Bugzilla link set to 1133697

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Updated by Lukas Zapletal over 9 years ago

Related to Tracker #431: [TRACKER] UEFI PXE support added

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Updated by Lukas Zapletal about 8 years ago

Just for the record, PXE-less discovery can provide the same as Bootdisk and it is UEFI compatible.

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Updated by Lukas Zapletal about 8 years ago

Subject changed from UEFI compatibility/ EFI boot to Make bootdisk images UEFI compatible

Isohybrid has a flag which will add Grub2 EFI loader to the image and create a configuration file for it based on the SYSLINUX one. This can only work for Full host image and it's pretty easy to implement. I have tested this, it works fine.

For other bootdisk types, I haven't tried this. But some support is in upstream now: http://ipxe.org/efi/vision

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Updated by Lukas Zapletal almost 8 years ago

Subject changed from Make bootdisk images UEFI compatible to Make full-host bootdisk image UEFI compatible
Bugzilla link changed from 1133697 to 1261802

As per above comment, SYSLINUX will work fine and implementation is pretty easy (see the BZ for more details). I am renaming this.

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