FS#33145 - Arch iso without efi support
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Release Engineering
Opened by chief (Chiefcooker) - Thursday, 20 December 2012, 17:36 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Sunday, 20 January 2013, 15:12 GMT
Opened by chief (Chiefcooker) - Thursday, 20 December 2012, 17:36 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Sunday, 20 January 2013, 15:12 GMT
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On some macs you can not boot 64bit distros (same with
windows) with efi support. And when you are a lucky one, it
boots and you can install it, but cannot use for example
binary grafic drivers in this efi install. So when you look
for example to the ubuntu side, they know the problems too,
and provide for years now an official mac iso
(http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/).
It would be nice to have such an iso for arch too, so you dont have to play around with the iso like described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Remove_UEFI_boot_support_from_ISO I think this would resolve many problems like "cannot install on my mac", "grafics and other drivers doesnt work on my mac" and so on.... |
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Closed by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Sunday, 20 January 2013, 15:12 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Sunday, 20 January 2013, 15:12 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
In any case, for the same reason we do not ship a separate ISO for:
* different bootloader than syslinux
* different syslinux boot code method
* different isohybrid partition offset
As you found on the wiki, you can remaster iso with simple steps. (You have a nice program to do this in Apple Mac OS X named hdiutil(1)).
Thomas, Pierre, what do you think?