#603 Issue closed: UEFI booting from USB disk

Labels: enhancement, fixed / solved / done

gdha opened issue at 2015-06-17 15:16:

Booting in UEFI mode from an USB disk can be a life saver when UEFI ISO booting is no option, e.g. SLES 11/12 cannot create an UEFI bootable ISO image (yet).

  • elilo seems out of the question (as it uses /etc/elilo.conf to read what to make bootable; alternative location seems problematic)
  • grub.efi might be useable (like we do for ISOs)
  • syslinux-efi (if version >6.02) ??

gdha commented at 2015-06-17 15:21:

See http://askubuntu.com/questions/516730/syslinux-6-02-where-to-and-what-has-to-be-copied-to-create-a-working-manual-in

gdha commented at 2015-10-29 11:02:

As ebiso is now available (http://www.it3.be/2015/10/27/uefi-iso-boot-with-ebiso/) there is no real need for this issue. We implement this feature as a paid service only

gdha commented at 2016-02-05 15:42:

Re-open this issue when we found a sponsor to implement this missing feature

jsmeix commented at 2016-05-11 12:55:

@gdha
I wonder if issues with "looking for sponsorship"
should be kept open until it is implemented
because otherwise I think in parctice nobody
can find them.

When one clicks at the right under "Labels"
onto "looking for sponsorship" one gets a list
filtered by

is:open label:"looking for sponsorship"

which means that closed issues
are excluded by default.

To get all issues with "looking for sponsorship"
one has to manually change the filter to

label:"looking for sponsorship"

but then it is impossible to decide which ones
are already implemented (and rightfully closed) versus
which ones are not yet implemented (but closed nevertheless).

gdha commented at 2016-05-11 13:47:

@jsmeix I tend to add looking for sponsorship issues on our web pages (http://relax-and-recover.org/support/sponsors) and then close these as they will be kept open forever. No-one is sponsoring anyhow.

jsmeix commented at 2016-05-17 12:18:

With https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/834 and https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/837
I regard this issue as done.

UEFI booting from USB disk/stick is implemented in two parts:

Part 1 is this issue https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/603 that
implements support for "rear format --efi" to format
an USB disk/stik with an additional UEFI (FAT) partition.

Part 2 is https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/831 that
implements filling the UEFI (FAT) partition on USB disk/stick
with bootloader and creating an appropriate bootloader config.

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]