F18, efi-bootable live images

[Andreas Tunek]

2012/10/2 Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek at gmail.com>:
> 2012/10/2 Brian C. Lane <bcl at redhat.com>:
>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:09:33AM +0200, Andreas Tunek wrote:
>>> The latest couple of F18 live images I have tried have not been efi
>>> bootable. Is this something known or something I should report in bugzilla?
>>> If so, under what component?
>>
>> What, exactly, happens? How are you trying to boot them? How did you
>> make the boot image? livecd-iso-to-disk should be working fine at this
>> point (it rewrites the label so the spaces bug isn't a problem).
>>
>> --
>
>
> This happens:
>
> livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --efi
> Fedora-18-Nightly-20120930.12-x86_64-Live-desktop.iso /dev/sdb
> Verifying image...
> /home/tuna/Downloads/Fedora-18-Nightly-20120930.12-x86_64-Live-desktop.iso:
>   cae42a4382b6b2fd7341855d96122c76
> Fragment sums: b9ebb947abaa631ca1b693423ed2c79f74c11e19a1111578358ecc4fff7d
> Fragment count: 20
> Press [Esc] to abort check.
> Checking: 100.0%
>
> The media check is complete, the result is: PASS.
>
> It is OK to use this media.
> WARNING: THIS WILL DESTROY ANY DATA ON /dev/sdb!!!
> Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort
>
> 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x00000200 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
> 8 bytes were erased at offset 0x3d3d2000 (gpt): 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54
> Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
> Waiting for devices to settle...
> mkdosfs 3.0.12 (29 Oct 2011)
> ERROR: This live image does not support EFI booting
>
> /Andreas Tunek
>

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livecd-tools.i686                1:17.15-1.fc17                 @updates-testing


>
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