[ipxe-devel] Generating a BIOS/UEFI hybrid ISO image

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 03:03:06PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> On 07/10/2021 14:52, Dean Westhead wrote:
> > Sorry ... I didnt want to take lots of your time if it is only me
> > having this issue and everyone else is working fine.

It is not important how much "works for me" exists.
Interesting is exploring what can be improved.
 
> > In the old "working" ISO, there is the following files :
> > 
> > boot.cat
> > efiboot.img
> > ipxe.krn
> > isolinux.bin
> > isolinux.cfg
> > 
> > The new one that isnt seen as a EFI bootable disk has :
> > 
> > boot.catalog
> > esp.img
> > ipxe.lkrn
> > isolinux.big
> > isolinux.cfg
> > 
> > I will open the EFI image too and see what is in that as soon as i
> > can and let you know about that too.
> 
> Thanks!  Most of those files are for BIOS booting: the relevant ones for
> UEFI are efiboot.img/esp.img, which should both be FAT filesystem images
> containing a file \EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi (which should be the ipxe.efi
> binary).

I think a "directory tree" will help.  As happy user of netbooting
systems can't I provide a "directory tree" of a known good.

An attempt to illustrate "directory tree" by using `tree /boot`
(Warning: non-ASCII characters ahead)

| $ tree /boot | wc
|     344    1346   12736
| $ tree /boot | grep -v -e .mo$ -e .mod$
| /boot
| ├── config-5.10.0-4-amd64
| ├── config-5.10.0-5-amd64
| ├── grub
| │   ├── fonts
| │   │   └── unicode.pf2
| │   ├── grub.cfg
| │   ├── grubenv
| │   ├── i386-pc
| │   │   ├── boot.img
| │   │   ├── command.lst
| │   │   ├── core.img
| │   │   ├── crypto.lst
| │   │   ├── efiemu32.o
| │   │   ├── efiemu64.o
| │   │   ├── fs.lst
| │   │   ├── moddep.lst
| │   │   ├── modinfo.sh
| │   │   ├── partmap.lst
| │   │   ├── parttool.lst
| │   │   ├── terminal.lst
| │   │   ├── video.lst
| │   ├── locale
| │   └── unicode.pf2
| ├── initrd.img-5.10.0-4-amd64
| ├── initrd.img-5.10.0-5-amd64
| ├── lost+found [error opening dir]
| ├── System.map-5.10.0-4-amd64
| ├── System.map-5.10.0-5-amd64
| ├── vmlinuz-5.10.0-4-amd64
| └── vmlinuz-5.10.0-5-amd64
| 


Regards
Geert Stappers
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