[elbe-devel] UEFI support

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Yegor Yefremov
<yegorslists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Martin Kaistra
> <martin.kaistra at linutronix.de> wrote:
>> Hi Yegor,
>>
>> Am 13.08.2018 um 09:02 schrieb Yegor Yefremov:
>>>
>>> I need an image for x86_64 to be able to boot in both BIOS and UEFI
>>> environments. I cannot use ELBE 3.0 as I'm blocked by this issue [1].
>>> So I've backported following patches to ELBE v2.3:
>>>
>>> Add examples for UEFI boot with grub
>>> Add support for hybrid images (UEFI+Bios)
>>> hdimg: change mountpoint of efi partition to /boot/efi
>>> Add support for UEFI boot with grub
>>> hdimg: do not use flag lba if partition format is gpt
>>>
>>
>>> But when I try to create image, I get following error, i.e. the new
>>> code won't be used by the initvm.
>>>
>>> PartitionException: The flag 'lba' is not available for gpt disk labels.
>>>
>>
>> This error does not occur, if "hdimg: do not use flag lba if partition
>> format is gpt" is correctly in place. The call to
>> "ppart.setFlag(_ped.PARTITION_LBA)" from create_partition() in hdimg.py
>> should only be made if the disk type is not gpt.
>
> The patches were in place:
>
> 2018-03-29 15:27 Martin Kaistra            o [uefi-vs] Add examples
> for UEFI boot with grub
> 2018-03-28 14:16 Martin Kaistra            o Add support for hybrid
> images (UEFI+Bios)
> 2018-03-28 14:16 Martin Kaistra            o hdimg: change mountpoint
> of efi partition to /boot/efi
> 2018-03-28 14:16 Martin Kaistra            o Add support for UEFI boot with grub
> 2018-03-28 14:16 Martin Kaistra            o hdimg: do not use flag
> lba if partition format is gpt
> 2018-05-15 15:43 Manuel Traut              o {origin/releases/v2.3}
> version bump v2.3
> 2018-05-15 14:04 Manuel Traut              o pkgutils: care about
> version numbers of packages
> 2017-11-22 22:54 John Ogness               o validation: parse
> InRelease or Release
> 2018-05-03 15:56 Torben Hohn               o elbeproject pbuilder: add
> gnupg to extrapackages installed into pbuilder
> 2018-04-17 12:46 Torben Hohn               o [devel/elbe-2.0]
> dbsfed.xsd: add text about the exclude feature to finetuning rm node.
>
>
> Anyway I've setup Debian 8 with the latest ELBE devel/elbe-3.0 and
> everything is working now.

My problem was that I haven't used --devel option during the initvm
creation. So my changes had no effect. Now your UEFI patches are
working with ELEB 2.x.

Yegor