Changeset 3537 in MondoRescue for branches

Timestamp:

Mar 21, 2016, 6:47:41 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

• First version allowing UEFI boot with RHEL 7 of mindi
• Improves README.uefi

File:

• branches/3.2/mindi/README.uefi (modified) (2 diffs)

branches/3.2/mindi/README.uefi

@@ -6 +6 @@
 Depending of your choice, software configuration, you may also use GPT or MBR as a file table format. Refer to README.ia64 for more details on how mondo and mindi deal with that.
 
-When booting in UEFI mode on a RHEL6/CentOS6 system, the current media made doesn't boot automatically yet.
-In order to restore your system, you'll have to go on the UEFI sheel and do the following:
+If when booting in UEFI mode on a system, the current media made doesn't boot automatically, in order to restore your system, you'll have to go on the UEFI shell and do something like the following:
 
 Shell> FS0:
@@ -14 +13 @@
 FS0:\EFI\BOOT\> grub
 
+This supposes that your D is seen as first media, which can be confirmed using the map command at UEFI shell prompt.
+
 Then you'll be at the standard boot menu to restore your system with the choice of options.
-You'll have to respect the case used inthe example upper.
+You'll have to respect the case used in the example upper.
 
 For now, MondoRescue doesn't invoke efibootmgr to recreate menu entries, so you'll have to recreate them manually for now.
+We also do not support Secure Boot yet. So you'll have to boot the MondoRescue media with it disabled.
+
+Useful links: 
+https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/02/06/the-efi-system-partition/
+https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI
+
+Useful commands:
+Shell> bcfg boot dump -v -b
 
 Please report any problem around that tool to bruno@mondorescue.org
 Bruno.
 
+2016-03-21 Make instructions more generic
 2015-08-28 Initial file