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Subject: Re: Planning for the next release
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:23:32 +0200
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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>    3. UEFI support documented and possibly improved.
>>
>>       We can certainly document the UEFI setup and add the /boot/efi
>>       partition in some of the =E2=80=98operating-system=E2=80=99 exampl=
es.
>>
>>       The more difficult part is the installation: do we need to make a
>>       second, UEFI-specific, installation image?  When I installed
>>       GuixSD on UEFI, I booted our installation image as =E2=80=9Clegacy=
=E2=80=9D, but
>>       then GRUB would default to a legacy install, not a UEFI install:
>>
>>         https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-12/msg00799.h=
tml
>>
>>       I=E2=80=99m not sure exactly what needs to be done.  Thoughts?
>
> I plan to work on this over the next few days. The most common way is to
> create a "hybrid" disk image that supports both UEFI and BIOS boot. IIRC
> Debian achieves this by using Isolinux to create the EFI payload and
> chainload to Grub. More information next week :-)

Awesome, thanks for volunteering!

Ludo=E2=80=99.