[arch-releng] December snapshot

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Sun Dec 2 13:53:38 EST 2012


On 11/30/2012 01:14 AM, Keshav P R wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <
> vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/29/2012 06:06 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was planing to do a new snapshot on Saturday December 1st. I create a
>>> test image today and also did an install without any issues. Am I right
>>> that there are no changes in archiso itself worth a new tag? (at least
>>> none that would affect the resulting image)
>>>
>>> Please let e know asap if there are any issues or you like to have some
>>> bug fixes included. As I am a little late this time we could still
>>> postpone this till next week if there are still things to do.
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Pierre
>>>
>>
>> I need to do some quick test, I think should work with current packages.
>>
>> Yes there is only one commit in archiso, but does not modify the target,
>> is just a cosmetic change.
>>
>> I guess UEFI with gummiboot is still broken on Asus motherboards, but I
>> have no access during these time, to a machine with this firmware, to
>> test and debug with gummiboot creators.
>>
>>
> For now i suggest using refind-efi refindx64.efi with the following config:
> 
> ---- (USB)/EFI/boot/refind.conf ----
> textonly
> showtools about,reboot,shutdown,exit
> scanfor manual
> 
> menuentry "Arch Linux Archiso x86_64" {
>     volume ARCH_201212
>     loader /arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz
>     initrd /arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img

>     ostype Linux
This is auto detected.

>     graphics off
This is the default.

>     options "add_efi_memmap archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201212"

add_efi_memmap: As said before I want to avoid any workaround by
default. Is this option is really needed on EFI, why is not enabled by
default when booting via EFI-stub loader?

> }
> 
> menuentry "UEFI x86_64 Shell v2" {
>     volume ARCH_201212
>     loader /EFI/shellx64_v2.efi
>     graphics off
> }
> 
> menuentry "UEFI x86_64 Shell v1" {
>     volume ARCH_201212
>     loader /EFI/shellx64_v1.efi
>     graphics off
> }
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> I don't have access to my laptop right now so I can't send a patch. In my
> Thinkpad E430 both gummiboot and rEFInd work fine.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Keshav
> 

I prefer to see gummiboot/gnu-efi fixed instead of switching again to
another EFI boot manager method. Maybe we get fixed it soon.

The change will be to syslinux, when 6.0 version appears.


-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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