[ipxe-devel] [PATCH 1/1] allow to build ISO image with EFI support (ipxe.eiso)

[Christian Nilsson]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> wrote:
> Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Mon, 2015/04/20 11:38:
>> From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
>
> This one works with Virtualbox guest but fails with real hardware. Tested
> with Lenovo Thinkpad X250 and Asus F200LA.
>
> Booting with emultion in EFI mode works without issues, though. So the
> emulation is the way to go... Michael, any comment on this?

There was a mention about this on IRC: (I have not looked in to this
any further myself, but might be)

< Ady2> FWIW, in
http://lists.ipxe.org/pipermail/ipxe-devel/2015-April/004091.html
quote: "Because mkisofs does not know these command options" ; and the
reason is that the "-e" option in xorriso is equivalent to
"-eltorito-platform 0xEF" for mkisofs. Additionally, xorriso does its
own isohybrid, while mkisofs leaves that part to the isohybrid tool.
mkisofs does support EFI.

/Christian