From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Bakke Subject: Re: Planning for the next release Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:13:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87shlqv4pe.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <87wpb7ym78.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34395) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cunkD-0003hz-19 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:13:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cunk7-0003b2-Vd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:13:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wpb7ym78.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guix-devel Cc: John Darrington --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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 example= s. > > 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.ht= ml > > 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 :-) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEu7At3yzq9qgNHeZDoqBt8qM6VPoFAljhd20ACgkQoqBt8qM6 VPpHYAgAyRUjkPSWv8p5POLzhIEv2k31NLD8hpTPBW1CYJ/uIVt0S61inMK+UBaR lyGzbh13E174Vpxo9sgR4C/VjoWOi1IXe0b2b2d9AiZtS1Aqg52GKqNfZPdFmTIC aLud7cNCwWA+G3mTwwfzBq7eUOi9psVTbfMmgioG3ORtvoTRutEbKgtiOMXRNq6W dCHXOTaUD1pJVxJIYLDFXhLJht8r5izhyCGXGsbZRDxt9ZLaX15ynJDGnsktRQUA 8e8c1I/uNYip0C6tH6wlbVuxmbMyMMCrdVVMgLaJzYjB6LWdkmZDZFN3jYyuHdpK ULoHP9qAVVE4p0ln8SFOH3iHn9gXEw== =IIlW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--