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bug#50676: [core-updates-frozen] Image production is broken.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#50676: [core-updates-frozen] Image production is broken. |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:37:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Howdy!
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:
>> drops me in the GRUB rescue shell right from the start, but I think
>> that’s because the command surprisingly builds an EFI image, as can be
>> seen from the generated genimage.cfg:
>
> Yep, that would be because of the Grub stripping issue. Regarding the
> EFI, both the qcow2 and the efi-raw image types produce "hybrid" images
> that have "grub" installed in the MBR-gap and "grub-efi" in the ESP
> partition. This way, those images can be used both on legacy BIOS based
> machines as well as on more modern UEFI machines.
Oh I hadn’t realized there was this fancy hybridation thing.
> Now the image types names can be confusing, and we could rename efi-raw
> and qcow2 to pc-hybrid-raw and pc-hybrid-qcow2 respectively.
OTOH the beauty of those hybrid images is precisely that one doesn’t
need to know that it’s hybrid. Dunno, no strong opinion!
Thanks for explaining,
Ludo’.