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Subject: bug#26815: [PATCH 3/3] vm: Support EFI boot in base image.
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 21:23:15 +0200
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Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>>> I think v4 is being prepared, I'll rebase this series once that is out.
>>
>> Thanks Marius for bearing with me.  :-)
>>
>> Are there specific bits that are needed here?
>
> The main reason it's blocking is that without it, there is a conflict
> between "grub" and "grub-efi" in PATH of the qemu image. So
> "grub-mkstandalone" may not find the EFI target.
>
> With the bootloader refactoring, the "normal" bootloader is passed down
> as a gexp from (gnu system vm), allowing "grub-efi" to reign over PATH.
>
> I'd like to make "grub-mkstandalone" a proper bootloader type in the
> long run, but that requires some other refactoring that I did not feel
> like embarking on right now :P

OK, understood!

Ludo=E2=80=99.