Bug 904292 - UEFI minimal boot media, reference to efidisk.img is incorrect
Summary: UEFI minimal boot media, reference to efidisk.img is incorrect
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Fedora
Component: install-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Bokoc
QA Contact: Ruediger Landmann
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Whiteboard:
: 902011 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-26 00:33 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2013-07-29 16:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-07-29 16:38:28 UTC
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Description Chris Murphy 2013-01-26 00:33:09 UTC
Description of problem:
Documentation refers to efidisk.img file in the images/ directory on the Fedora 18 installation DVD. This file doesn't exist.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F18 DVD final

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mount ISO or disk.
2. Navigate to images folder.
3.
  
Actual results:

There is no efidisk.img.

Expected results:

Unclear. Should documentation be referring to efiboot.img?


Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2013-01-28 03:43:54 UTC
Turns out documentation probably means efiboot.img, however efiboot.img is not minimal boot media for UEFI computers. It's only a boot loader, no vmlinuz, initrd, system, or installer. So the user doesn't actually get to a functioning installer by using efiboot.img.

The correct answer is they need to use netinst.iso which is identical to boot.iso. So really the chapter 3.0 preface and prefix need updating, and probably section 3.3.1 can just be yanked because there's nothing unique about UEFI anymore, other than media is only x86_64.

Comment 2 Jack Reed 2013-03-27 04:18:51 UTC
*** Bug 902011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jack Reed 2013-03-27 23:21:22 UTC
Thanks for this, Chris. You've identified a lot of outdated installation media information between this and bug 904292 - much appreciated.

I've already fixed the efiboot.img mention in the 'Boot and installation media' table in bug 904292. For this bug, I've removed the UEFI subsection, changed boot.iso to netinst.iso, and removed other architecture-specific references now that the section applies to all architectures.

See commit cf287b78e76ac6a060376c038cbf8e3505b7c9d2


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