UEFI L4 image?

[Peter Wiehe]

Oh thanks. I see now. Uefi confuses me alot.

I will try out L4 now with the given instructions.

Kind regards
Peter

Matthias Lange <matthias.lange at kernkonzept.com> schrieb am Mo., 26. Nov.
2018 17:36:

> Hi Peter,
>
> On [26-11-2018 17:14], Peter Wiehe wrote:
> > Hello Matthias,
> >
> > 2018-11-26 10:02 GMT+01:00, Matthias Lange <
> matthias.lange at kernkonzept.com>:
> > > Hi Peter,
> > >
> > > On [25-11-2018 01:08], Peter Wiehe wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> can you give me a link to an UEFI flat PE image of L4Re? If that's not
> > >> available, then perhaps a link to instructions how to produce one
> > >> myself?
> > >
> > > It seems that bit rot has taken its toll and the support is currently
> > > broken.
> > >
> > > Is there a specific reason you want to use the PE image directly?
> > >
>
> [...]
>
> > If you mean why I don't want to build from source, it's simply to make
> > my life easier :)
> > If you mean why a single flat PE image instead of modules it's because
> > I assume that is neccessary to run on UEFI not supporting Legacy BIOS.
> > But maybe I assume wrong and UEFI can handle modules? (Maybe you don't
> > call it modules but rather something different...)
>
> Ok, maybe I was a little bit unclear in my first reply. In fact you don't
> need
> a PE image to boot L4Re on an UEFI system without CSM. It's working out of
> the
> box.
>
> All you need is a grub2 that can be booted by UEFI. Either use the one
> provided by your Linux distro or build one yourself:
>
> $~: configure --with-platform=efi
> ...
> $~: grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi ...
>
> Then, all you have to do is use multiboot2 to boot L4Re. The entry in
> grub.cfg
> for the hello example would look like this:
>
> menuentry 'hello' {
>     multiboot2 /boot/bootstrap /bootstrap
>     module2 /boot/fiasco fiasco
>     module2 /boot/sigma0 sigma0
>     module2 /boot/moe moe --init=rom/hello
>     module2 /boot/l4re l4re
>     module2 /boot/hello hello
> }
>
> Good luck,
> Matthias.
>
> > Kind regards
> > Peter
>
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