[ipxe-devel] (U)EFI questions

[Christian Nilsson]

Hi,

Your best approach for linux is to have one kernel with efistub
enabled - that way it will be both an normal kernel and an efi binary
at the same time.
other then that you have the platform variable to detect boot mode:
http://ipxe.org/cfg/platform

/Christian

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 10:50 AM, brent s. <bts at square-r00t.net> wrote:
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> Hey all-
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> I had asked in IRC about PNG/Background image support in EFI builds. It
> seems it's currently not supported due to a currently needed fixed-width
> bitmap font definition. Is this correct?
>
> I was also wondering if it was possible to detect if the machine was
> booted via UEFI mode as opposed to BIOS, perhaps via an environment
> variable?
>
> Something like:
>
> isset ${uefi} || set ${bootmode} BIOS
>
> or perhaps
>
> iseq ${bootmode} EFI && set kernelfile vmlinuz.efi
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> etc.
>
>
> - --
> brent saner
> http://www.square-r00t.net
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