Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Linda Walsh wrote:

> Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Linda Walsh wrote:
> >
> > > Steffen Winterfeldt wrote:
> > > > The DVD will boot via EFI on EFI systems and via legacy BIOS otherwise.
> > > > Systems with both EFI & legacy BIOS _might_ (but don't need to) present 
> > > > you
> > > > a dialog to select.
> > > ---
> > >     So you are saying that if the user can disable their
> > > bios's legacy boot support, then SUSE will boot using EFI.
> >
> > You normally don't have to actually disable it but set the boot priority to
> > try efi first. But basically, yes.
> ----
>         Wouldn't that depend on one's bios?
>         In my Dell I can choose for EFI boot or legacy.
>
>         When I choose EFI, the suse 11.2 DVD doesn't boot.  Is it supposed
> to?

Ok, the situation is a bit more confusing than I thought. :-(

The theory is that since oS 11.1 all x64-64 boot media should also be EFI
bootable. I've looked into it and what we really have is:

- oS 11.1 x86-64 4GB-DVD & NET-ISO work

- oS 11.2 media do have an EFI boot image (/boot/x86_64/efi) but don't work
  due to a KIWI bug (that got fixed yesterday, AFAIK)

- oS 11.3 previews: not yet but should start to work once the new KIWI is used


Steffen
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