[node-devel] ovirt-node uefi status update

[Peter Jones]

On 01/05/2012 10:35 AM, Joey Boggs wrote:
> Just an update and hopefully a search for help/opinions on finishing uefi
> installation steps.
>
> So far ovirt-node can be installed to usb drives without being booted in
> uefi mode, this works for usb because it can use a default bootloader in
> EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI which is where we place it for now. The problem with
> installing it to other media like sata drives etc is that we have to put a
> bootloader entry in using efibootmgr which requires being booted in uefi
> mode.

The current spec also provides for using /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI as a fallback
on non-removable media.

> Typical storage layout as it's different from a Fedora/RHEL install, livecd
> format and installs to a disk in the same format.
>
> /dev/mapper/XXXXXXp1 - EFI partition mounted to /liveos/efi (256M fat32)

You probably really do want to stick this in a subdirectory that you can
"chmod o-rwx" - or can boot passwords and whatnot actually not be set in this
environment?

-- 
         Peter