linux-kernel - EFI Boot Stub on Removable Media

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Message-ID: <4F6394D0.3090104@shealevy.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:30:24 -0400
From:	Shea Levy <shea@...alevy.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: EFI Boot Stub on Removable Media

Hello,

I am currently working on making the live CDs for the NixOS distribution 
EFI-bootable with the EFI boot stub as the bootloader. Is there a 
recommended way to use a boot-stub enabled kernel on a removable device 
(where, AFAIK, there is no way to tell the firmware what params to boot 
with automatically)? Currently, I'm hacking together a really 
quick-and-dirty UEFI application that reads a parameters file at a 
pre-defined location and loads the kernel with those parameters, but I'd 
love a better alternative. Is it possible to embed an initrd in a 
bzImage after the image is built? Or is there some way to have a CD tell 
the firmware what arguments to pass to \EFI\BOOT\BOOT{ARCH}.EFI? Or some 
easy tweak to the kernel source to have it use a set of default 
parameters in absence of explicitly passed ones?

Cheers,
Shea Levy
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