Bug 691564

Summary:	BFO files don't appear to support (U)EFI hardware.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Murphy <bugzilla>
Component:	gpxe	Assignee:	Justin M. Forbes <jforbes>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	27	CC:	berrange, crobinso, jforbes, jhenner, matt_domsch, tburke, the.ridikulus.rat
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Description Chris Murphy 2011-03-28 20:26:02 UTC

Description of problem: http://boot.fedoraproject.org/ provides no useful information on whether the files support UEFI booting, and if not, references to how to make it work.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 14 and Fedora 15.


How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download bfo.usb from http://boot.fedoraproject.org/
2. dd the image to a USB stick.
3. Attempt to boot.
  
Actual results:
(U)EFI machines don't show the USB stick as being bootable. BIOS machines do.


Expected results:
Expect either a separate BFO file to download for use with UEFI hardware, or for the existing ones to support booting UEFI hardware.


Additional info:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_UEFI_pxeboot

There appears to be no valid *.efi files at http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/bfo/. So it doesn't appear possible on the remote side, even if the local hardware is capable.

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-04-04 20:37:44 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2012-03-19 22:21:54 UTC

Unfortunately this is not the right place for this kind of request. You need to file a ticket with the Fedora Infrastructure team:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2012-03-19 22:39:51 UTC

You mean this is a feature request and not a bug? I'm not quite understanding. If BFO is a good idea for BIOS machines, it seems it would also be a good idea for UEFI machines. And I understand the USB stick contents would be considerably different because the only local files BFO provides is the bootloader - and that's what's so radically different between BIOS and UEFI.

So if it's a feature request, would I basically be asking for UEFI equivalent BFO files be produced?

Comment 4 Jaroslav Henner 2017-12-22 14:58:40 UTC

I would really like to have something really small that I could simply cp or dd to usb stick and just select the distro I want to live-boot / install and all the data should be downloaded afterwards.

Comment 5 Jan Kurik 2018-05-31 09:06:56 UTC

This bug is currently reported against a Fedora version which is already unsuported.
I am changing the version to '27', the latest supported release.

Please check whether this bug is still an issue on the '27' release.
If you find this bug not being applicable on this release, please close it.

Comment 6 Cole Robinson 2018-06-26 14:41:24 UTC

(In reply to Jaroslav Henner from comment #4)
> I would really like to have something really small that I could simply cp or
> dd to usb stick and just select the distro I want to live-boot / install and
> all the data should be downloaded afterwards.

gpxe doesn't exist anymore. reopening old bugs for requests like this is rarely a good idea.