Testing requested: Hybrid ISO/USB boot

[Benno Rice]

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 1:48 PM, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Benno Rice wrote:
>> I’ve been working on the ability to create hybrid ISO/HDD boot images for
>> x86, a la what Linux systems do with ISOHYBRID.
> 
> Waving friendly over the fence i feel entitled to give some neighbor's
> review.

Hello! Thanks for your response.

[snip]

>> https://people.freebsd.org/~benno/hybrid-bootonly.iso.xz
> 
> This does not look much like it addresses EFI.
> 
>  $ xorriso -indev hybrid-bootonly.iso -report_el_torito plain -report_system_area plain
>  ...
>  El Torito catalog  : 19  1
>  El Torito images   :   N  Pltf  B   Emul  Ld_seg  Hdpt  Ldsiz         LBA
>  El Torito boot img :   1  BIOS  y   none  0x0000  0x00      4          20
>  El Torito boot img :   2  BIOS  y   none  0x0000  0x00   1600          24
>  ...
>  MBR partition table:   N Status  Type        Start       Blocks
>  MBR partition      :   1   0x80  0xa5            1           16
> 
> UEFI 2.4, 12.3.2.1, says about El Torito:
> "A Platform Id of 0xEF indicates an EFI System Partition."
> But entry 2 of this catalog is in a section with Platform Id 0x00 (x86 BIOS).
> 
> If byte 38977 (decimal) was 0xef rather than 0x00, then it would be marked
> as an El Torito boot image for EFI.

I think I’ve addressed this in this revision:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331463 <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/331463>

And I’ve regenerated the image here:

https://people.freebsd.org/~benno/hybrid-bootonly-20180323-00.iso.xz <https://people.freebsd.org/~benno/hybrid-bootonly-20180323-00.iso.xz>

> Further: This section begins at byte address 38976 by a byte value 0x90.
> According to El Torito specs this means that another section follows.
> Correct would be value 0x91, which announces the end of the catalog.
> (El Torito 1.0, Figure 4, Offset 0)

I’ll look into this too.

> On HDD, EFI looks for specially marked partitions in GPT or MBR partition
> table.
> In MBR partiton table it looks for a partition of type 0xEF.
> (UEFI 2.4, 5.2.2)
> In GPT it looks for Type GUID C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B.
> (UEFI 2.4, Table 19)
> 
> So to mark the EFI partition, hybrid-bootonly.iso should have a MBR
> partition number 2 with type 0xEF, start at 512-byte block 24*2048/512 = 96,
> size 1600 blocks.
> (Strangely El Torito addresses by 2048-byte blocks but counts by 512-byte
> blocks. Size limit is 65535 blocks. But counts 0 and 1 mean to EFI
> "up to end of medium”.)

I’ll look in to this one too.

>> I’ve tested this image under qemu 
> 
> OVMF/SDK-II/Tianocore is too tolerant with the EFI specs and with silently
> using BIOS boot equipment. Real iron EFIs insist much more in compliance.

So it appears. Thanks again for looking at this!

Thanks,
	Benno.