[arch-releng] [PATCH] Copy UEFI Shell to (ISO)/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 09/12/2012 11:32 AM, Keshav P R wrote:
> Hi all,
>           I created a minor patch (attached) to copy UEFI Shell to
> (ISO)/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi apart from setting up efiboot.img. With
> this change, creating a UEFI bootable USB is a simple task of
> extracting Archiso to FAT32 formatted USB and booting it. Without this
> change the user needs to use p7zip to extract files from efiboot.img .
> The shell binary is very small so this should not be an issue.
>
> I also added refind-efi-x86_64 to the list of packages in the ISO as
> this is required for providing a menu for EFISTUB booting.
>
> Regards.
>
> Keshav
...and README update ;)

# mount <DEV-TARGET-N> <MNT-TARGET-N>
4) Extract ISO image on target filesystem.
-# bsdtar -x --exclude=isolinux/ --exclude=arch/boot/syslinux/ -f 
<ISO-SOURCE> -C <MNT-TARGET-N>
+# bsdtar -x --exclude=isolinux/ --exclude=EFI/archiso/ 
--exclude=arch/boot/syslinux/ -f <ISO-SOURCE> -C <MNT-TARGET-N>
-5) Extract efiboot.img on EFI/ on target filesystem.
-# mcopy -s -i <MNT-TARGET-N>/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img ::/EFI <MNT-TARGET-N>/
-
-6) Remove uneeded efiboot.img
-# rm <MNT-TARGET-N>/EFI/archiso/efiboot.img
-
-7) Unmount target filesystem.
+5) Unmount target filesystem.
# umount <MNT-TARGET-N>



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