Revision as of 20:37, 5 January 2011

Bootable EFI CDs on Intel Macs

Bootable EFI CDs on an Intel Mac are a bit different than a normal EFI CD. As such, they need special support.

HFS+ support for blessing a file
make dumpet correctly interpet and display hybrid iso/apm CDs and HFS+ blessing
Ability to create image files for the icon and label to be used on the boot option screen
Ability to create CD that has el torito images as well as an Apple Partition Map which specifies the HFS+ image as a partition.
icon/label images included in *-logos
modification of mk-images to create the appropriate HFS+ image and add it to CD images.

Sub-task	Percent Complete	Notes
HFS+ bless	100	Apparently we can do this now. Two bytes in the HFS+ superblock need to be set to point to the inode of the appropriate file, which can be determined with ls -i. Code written and can be merged into the CD creation.
icons	0	We know how to create them. generic-artwork has a sample implementation and builds the Mac icon. It then just has to be placed in an appropriate location in the HFS+ filesystem.
create hybrid APM CDs	0	pjones working on this
*-logos	0
mk-images	0	blocking on stuff above

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 |HFS+ bless||100||Apparently we can do this now. Two bytes in the HFS+ superblock need to be set to point to the inode of the appropriate file, which can be determined with ls -i. Code written and can be merged into the CD creation.
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-|icons||0|| We know how to create them. generic-artwork has a sample implementation and builds the Mac icon.
+|icons||0|| We know how to create them. generic-artwork has a sample implementation and builds the Mac icon. It then just has to be placed in an appropriate location in the HFS+ filesystem.
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 |create hybrid APM CDs||0|| pjones working on this