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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000680 | Kali Linux | [All Projects] General Bug | public | 2013-11-01 16:30 | 2014-07-22 19:19 |
| Reporter | g0tmi1k | Assigned To | rhertzog | ||
| Priority | high | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 1.0.5 | ||||
| Target Version | 1.0.6 | Fixed in Version | 1.0.8 | ||
| Summary | 0000680: EFI boot support | ||||
| Description | The current Kali Linux (1.0.5) x64 doesn’t have the necessary EFI files on it. Comparing it to the latest version of Debian (7.2.0) x64 - CD Version. root@kali ~/Desktop$ ls -lah *.iso -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 623M Oct 28 13:14 debian-7.2.0-amd64-CD-1.iso -rwxrw-rw- 1 root root 2.4G Oct 28 13:25 kali-linux-1.0.5-amd64.iso root@kali ~/Desktop$ dumpet -i debian-7.2.0-amd64-CD-1.iso Validation Entry: Header Indicator: 0x01 (Validation Entry) PlatformId: 0x00 (80x86) ID: "" Checksum: 0x55aa Key bytes: 0x55aa Boot Catalog Default Entry: Entry is bootable Boot Media emulation type: no emulation Media load segment: 0x0 (0000:7c00) System type: 0 (0x00) Load Sectors: 4 (0x0004) Load LBA: 122249 (0x0001dd89) Section Header Entry: Header Indicator: 0x91 (Final Section Header Entry) PlatformId: 0xef (EFI) Section Entries: 1 ID: "" Boot Catalog Section Entry: Entry is bootable Boot Media emulation type: no emulation Media load address: 0 (0x0000) System type: 0 (0x00) Load Sectors: 896 (0x0380) Load LBA: 89982 (0x00015f7e) root@kali ~/Desktop$ dumpet -i kali-linux-1.0.5-amd64.iso Validation Entry: Header Indicator: 0x01 (Validation Entry) PlatformId: 0x00 (80x86) ID: "" Checksum: 0x55aa Key bytes: 0x55aa Boot Catalog Default Entry: Entry is bootable Boot Media emulation type: no emulation Media load segment: 0x0 (0000:7c00) System type: 0 (0x00) Load Sectors: 4 (0x0004) Load LBA: 13447 (0x00003487) root@kali ~/Desktop$ Looking at the Debian image, the file '/.disk/mkisofs' contains the following arguments when generating their ISO file: -eltorito-alt-boot -e boot/grub/efi.img -no-emul-boot | ||||
| Additional Information | 'To make a disk also EFI bootable, it needs an EFI bootable image, such as efiboot.img in our trees, and that needs to be inserted as a second El Torito boot image. To do this, we insert a 4th section between the El Torito section and the section about our tree, which looks like this:’ Source: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pjones/BootableCDsForBIOSAndUEFI#New_UEFI.2FBIOS_hybrid_method | ||||
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For the record, I opened a wishlist bug against live-build to get proper UEFI support: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731709 |
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Adding some links that might be relevant: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?271-How-to-EFI-install-Kali-Linux http://securitty.tumblr.com/post/54774007612/kali-linux-macbook-usb-boot-full-disk-encryption |
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Some progress report. I uploaded live-build 3.0.5-1kali4 (to kali-proposed-updates) that knows how to enable EFI boot support by using syslinux 6. But syslinux 6 is only available in kali-dev for now because it likely breaks the build of debian-installer... That means that daily builds of kali-dev will have EFI support tomorrow: http://archive.kali.org/kali-daily-images/ Feel free to test them and report back. If you're using the EFI support, your boot menu will be labeled "EFI Boot Menu", if you see only "Boot Menu" then you're using the BIOS boot method. |
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We now have proper EFI boot support, at least if you copy the ISO on a USB stick and if you boot from it. You need live-build 3.0.5-1kali7 to build a proper EFI image. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2013-11-01 16:30 | g0tmi1k | New Issue | |
| 2013-11-01 16:30 | g0tmi1k | Description Updated | View Revisions |
| 2013-12-06 11:29 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0001136 | |
| 2013-12-06 11:29 | rhertzog | Assigned To | => rhertzog |
| 2013-12-06 11:29 | rhertzog | Status | new => assigned |
| 2013-12-06 11:30 | rhertzog | Priority | normal => high |
| 2013-12-06 11:30 | rhertzog | Target Version | => 1.0.6 |
| 2013-12-31 09:35 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0001248 | |
| 2014-01-20 14:32 | rhertzog | Note Edited: 0001136 | View Revisions |
| 2014-03-28 21:26 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0001645 | |
| 2014-06-29 19:52 |
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Issue cloned: 0001464 | |
| 2014-07-22 19:19 | rhertzog | Note Added: 0002356 | |
| 2014-07-22 19:19 | rhertzog | Status | assigned => closed |
| 2014-07-22 19:19 | rhertzog | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2014-07-22 19:19 | rhertzog | Fixed in Version | => 1.0.8 |