[arch-releng] ArchIso bootloader

александр епанешников aarnaarn2 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 15:42:44 UTC 2019


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thanks for answers.

> One for USB EFI boot, the other for the vintage DVD/CD mode in EFI ("El
> Torito")


wear i can read about Torito? because now i don't understand fully "how
boot segment of archiso built?"





11.10.2019 17:28, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi via arch-releng пишет:
> On 10/6/19 2:38 PM, Alexandr Epaneshnikov via arch-releng wrote:
>> hello. since i work on #63166
>> <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63166?project=6>i have sum questions
>> about archiso project.
>>
>> As far as I understand, two loaders are used. syslinux for bios and
>> systemd-boot for efi. is it so? and why it is so?
>
> * because systemd-boot does not support non-efi
> * syslinux may not work on efi (at least it does for few machines I
tested).
> * systemd-boot is the... maybe bring most features to systemd...
>>
>> i modified syslinux config
>>
<https://github.com/alex19EP/talkingarch/raw/accessible-upstreem/configs/releng/syslinux/archiso_sys.cfg>
>> to add another entry with kernel cmdline options. do i need to add
>> another file in configs/releng/efiboot/loader/entries for efi support?
>>
>
> yes
>
>> why are archiso-x86_64-cd.conf and archiso-x86_64-usb.conf?
>
> One for USB EFI boot, the other for the vintage DVD/CD mode in EFI ("El
> Torito")
>>
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>
>
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