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2017 Apr 12
1
Improving TAILS, WAS: Module Versioning
...o _automatically_ load the adequate efi binary for each
> EFI architecture (x86 / ia32), overcoming a (prior) limitation in
> Syslinux. Syslinux 6.04-pre1 already includes a solution for this
> situation. We'll see whether intrigeri bites ;).
Assuming you're referring to commit 7d9c9ec
("core/fs/lib/loadconfig.c: Add architecture-specific config name to
search"): right, I do intend to look into it, and indeed this will
most likely allow us to drop GRUB for ia32 EFI. Thanks! But quite
frankly I'd rather wait for 6.04 to be actually released.
Now tracked on Tails'...
2016 Mar 07
4
Module Versioning
Actually, as you may have questions with some elements you'll see in the
log, and especially:
Detected Syslinux version: 6.03/20150819 (from '/EFI/BOOT/isolinux.bin')
So I should point out that EFI/grub is actually used by the tails people
to chain load EFI/Syslinux (hence the ldlinux.e64, ldlinux.c32 as well
as isolinux.bin one also sees in /efi/boot/).
As a result, in the
2017 Apr 12
0
Module Versioning
...UEFI: EFI/BOOT/bootia32.efi, which is GRUB that loads the
syslinux config with the syslinux_configfile directive; we do that
due to the fact that the we can put only one set of *.c32 modules
and syslinux configuration, for one single architecture, in
EFI/BOOT; I'll look into commit 7d9c9ec ("Add architecture-specific
config name to search") later as this might allow us to drop GRUB,
which would make the whole thing a bit more straightforward
Regards,
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intrigeri