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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:52:03
Message-Id: 50C4A538.5080306@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media by Fernando Reyes
1 Fernando Reyes schrieb:
2 > The problem with the isohybrid approach is that it doesn't support UEFI booting and this is why I wouldn't recommended as a feature in catalyst. However, this should be documented somewhere so that users know its possible without having to follow the liveusb guide which is probably outdated by today's standards.
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4 isohybrid works with UEFI by passing --uefi option. This requires a UEFI
5 bootable image (such as a UEFI capable boot loader or kernel with EFI
6 stub support) to be present.
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8 Starting with syslinux-6.00 it will be possible to boot UEFI systems in
9 EFI mode. Until then, one of the other boot loaders (rEFIt, GRUB 2,
10 ELILO) might be used.
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13 Best regards,
14 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn