Re: [PATCH] Explicitly build msdos partition support into EFI executables

[Mario Limonciello]

    Hi Vladimir:
    
    On 01/06/2011 08:45 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 05:45 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > Currently EFI executables don't include part_msdos or vfat support by
> > default.  This means that EFI executables can only be launched
> > directly from ISO9660 filesystems.  The attached patch explicitly adds
> > part_msdos and vfat so that the rest of the GRUB files can be found on
> > other devices, such as USB keys.
> >
> >       
> grub-mkrescue is only for creating ISOs. If you need to install to HDD
> please use grub-install. For custom EFI executables use grub-mkimage
>     
    The reason for adding this to the EFI executable on ISOs is so that
    those same ISOs can be installed to a VFAT USB stick and that USB
    stick bootable via EFI.  The particular use case i'm thinking about
    is Ubuntu's usb-creator. It extracts the ISO directly to the stick. 
    If the EFI executable contains these two modules, no additional work
    is necessary.

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Mario Limonciello
Linux Engineer
Dell | OS Engineering