#805 Issue `closed`: Use 'ebiso' automatically as needed¶

Labels: enhancement, won't fix / can't fix / obsolete

jsmeix opened issue at 2016-03-24 10:46:¶

On openSUSE and SLE rear >= 1.18 plus 'ebiso' must be used
to make the rear recovery system ISO image bootable on UEFI.

With rear 1.18 one must explicitly specify in /etc/rear/local.conf
that 'ebiso' is used to make the ISO image - otherwise it fails (cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/804 and https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/801).

This issue here is an enhancement request to automate it in a future
rear version to use ebiso if is_true $USING_UEFI_BOOTLOADER (cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/801).

gdha commented at 2018-01-12 08:15:¶

@jsmeix Does the latest SLES (or OpenSuSE) fixed the genisoimage rpm to boot from on UEFI, or is ebiso still a requirement?

jsmeix commented at 2018-01-12 12:39:¶

As far as I know ebiso is still a requirement.

Furthermore I would prefer ebiso over genisoimage
because ebiso is known to work in practice and
I even know the one who makes ebiso personally
and I know he makes it "just work" (in contrast to
the genisoimage uncertainity at SUSE/openSUSE).

@gozora
again many thanks for your relatively simple,
straightforward, and "just working" ebiso!

gdha commented at 2019-09-13 07:32:¶

@jsmeix is the above statement still true? ebiso of @gozora was/is a blessing for SLES for sure, but it seems incredible that SLES does not fixes this in their base OS.

jsmeix commented at 2019-09-13 14:16:¶

No idea if something meanwhile changed
and no time for investigation
cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/799#issuecomment-531247109
so I just close it as "can't fix" to get it out of sight.

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]