The F17 Beta RC3 x86-64 desktop live image isn't bootable via EFI when written to an actual optical disc (DVD or CD). The DVD and netinst images are EFI bootable when written to optical disc, and the desktop live is EFI bootable when written to USB with litd (but not when written to USB with dd - I've filed a separate bug for that). [adamw@vaioz fedora]$ ls /media/Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Deskt/EFI/ -ltR /media/Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Deskt/EFI/: total 2 dr-xr-xr-x. 2 adamw adamw 2048 Apr 4 07:56 boot /media/Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Deskt/EFI/boot: total 17941 -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 473 Apr 4 07:56 bootx64.conf -r-xr-xr-x. 1 adamw adamw 340560 Apr 4 07:56 bootx64.efi -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 473 Apr 4 07:56 grub.conf -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 12938372 Apr 4 07:56 initrd0.img -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 24576 Apr 4 07:56 isolinux.bin -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 2227 Apr 4 07:56 isolinux.cfg -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 176760 Apr 4 07:56 memtest -r--r--r--. 1 adamw adamw 67229 Apr 4 07:56 splash.xpm.gz -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 155792 Apr 4 07:56 vesamenu.c32 -r--r--r--. 2 adamw adamw 4661840 Apr 4 07:56 vmlinuz0
Should this be against "LiveCD" instead of livecd-tools? The livecd-iso-to-disk script produces an (U)EFI bootable USB stick from RC3 for me, but burning RC3 is not EFI bootable. So I suspect the reason why the dd to USB is also not EFI bootable is directly related to why the Live CD is not EFI bootable. Neither RC1 nor RC3 burned to DVD-RW produces EFI bootable media for me, did not test RC2. I know one of the beta TC's or alpha did.
This is a problem with the buildroot, they need to use the newest version of livecd-creator. the LiveCD component is, I think, a dead project. Live creation issues should be livecd-tools and netboot/dvd iso issues should be lorax.
bcl believes that just building RC4 with livecd-tools 17.7 should be sufficient unto the purpose. Nominating as a Beta NTH so we can pull it into the compose environment. chris: livecd-tools includes livecd-creator as well, the script which is used to actually generate the live images. Brian says the reason dd'ed DVDs and netinst images are not EFI bootable is different from this bug. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
We use whats in the stable repo to compose livecds, if we need a newer version then it needs to have a blocker bug so that it can be evaluated and decided if its needed.
Dennis, this is nominated as NTH for that reason. Discussed at 2012-04-06 NTH review meeting - http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2012-04-06/f17-beta-blocker-review-5.2012-04-06-17.01.log.html . Accepted as NTH as we obviously want EFI bootable composes and the fix is safe. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Beta is out, moving to F17 Final NTH
Adam, did RC4 (not RC4.1) boot on EFI when written to a real disc?
99% sure* I have RC4, not RC4.1. Dated 4/10. LiveCD on a real disk booting real EFI hardware (Apple), I get three "EFI Boot" labeled options. Two reboot to Mac OS. One drops to a Grub legacy prompt. DVD media on real disk, one "EFI Boot" option. Grub legacy and its menu come up, kernel, initrd load fine and I get to a prompt. i.e. appears to boot. I could be mistaken on the cause, but this behavior is the same as what I was getting during alphas with the netinst.iso that mjg was working on for mactel boot. * I'd confirm this myself, but the prior betaRC4 and RC4.1 links are MIA, so I can't find the checksum files. This is what I have: LiveCD: SHA256 $E1C9C5A7D6929E5F5EE9AEBB18C25AAED14A715493AD29664446C492F1A76D0A DVD: SHA256 $1C32F758B669C9105590C5FAAEF1FFD69AC326469E487CD2770529A24E00B5C8
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=3978914&name=Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso (BETA?) Burned to CD: shows Mac and "Windows" icons "Windows" boots fine to Gnome3 Desktop on MacBook Pro i7 NO EFI Icons appear to the right of "Windows" Examination of CD's contents show EFI; isolinux;and LiveOS folders and GPL file All Folders contain files
Note that there was a problem with grub-0.97-88 (included in the beta) booting from dd'd USB sticks. grub-0.97-89 fixed that issue for me. It is possible that it will fix booting from real discs as well.
Tested with Fedora-17.TC2 Live Desktop image and it boots on EFI just fine.
Works for me as well.
if two people say it works, let's close it. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
This is no longer working in TC5. i.e. burned to actual media, I get a "Windows" only option, no EFI options. I'm not sure if the regression occurred in TC3, TC4 or TC5.
<bcl> adamw: FYI - TC5 live desktop is missing the EFI images on the .iso (according to dumpet -i) <bcl> usually that means mkefiboot failed so the files/dirs didn't get created. <bcl> It should be obvious from the build logs. That's likely a different bug, so we'll file it separately. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Turns out that there was a stale livecd-tools build in the bleed repo so we wound up composing TC4 and TC5 with livecd-tools 17.4. This should be resolved for TC6/RC1. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
On a MBP 4,1 I have EFI boot options, all three of them drop me to a grub prompt. None boot. dd to USB does work.
(In reply to comment #17) Refers to Final RC1 Live Desktop.
EFI boot working on Macs in Final RC2.