[CentOS] UEFI Bootable ISO HowTo

The 6.4 Minimal install does not work with UEFI.  It was the first one I
downloaded, and it is broken.  Comes up with an error after the initial
grub.... either a file not found or error 15 or something.

I haven't tried the full disk 1 yet though.

Our solution is a little more involved than that.  We take a normal install
disk, add a pile of packages, scripts, drivers, etc and do a pile of post
install processing to build our system.

6.4 full disk may be perfect... the question is, when I have my layout, how
do I make a disk that boots with UEFI?

This is the primary command we use to build our current disk.

mkisofs -r -R -J -T -v -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -V
"EIN FullOS" -publisher "eintellego Networks" -A "EIN FullOS" -b
isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -o ein-newdisk.iso ./disk/

I'm not sure what I should do to make it UEFI compatible?


...Skeeve

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:18 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>wrote:

> On 03/13/2013 01:30 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> This has caused me to burn hours trying to figure what is going on until
> > someone pointed me to: CentOS-6.3-x86_64-minimal-EFI.iso - which worked
> > fine (except no LAN drivers for this device are present - damnit).
>
> In 6.4 - the standard DVD's are EFI capable now, as well as the minimal
> ISO ( but not the netinstall ). There is also the efi image which can be
> used to boot UEFI instances from USB drives. All this is already there
> and functional
>
> > As we roll our own ISO... I want to re-build our platform on top of
> CentOS
> > 6.4 - or something current, but while the OS isn't an issue... the EFI
> > aspect is... and I can't seem to find out how to roll and ISO with EFI
> > support.
>
> What sort of content are you adding in there ? If we can make that work
> with the CentOS-Plus side of things, I'd be happy to roll the content
> into a CentOS-Plus/iso
>
> - KB
>
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