Bug 1951

Summary: EFI + PCBIOS live images duplicate the kernel, initrd, and rootfs
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Darren Hart <dvhart>
Component: coreAssignee: Darren Hart <dvhart>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 1.2   
Target Milestone: 1.2 M3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard: Patch on oe-core list (Feb 3, 2012)
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: ---

Description Darren Hart 2012-02-01 13:11:15 UTC
The do_bootimg code can generate hybrid efi+pcbios images (syslinux and grub-efi) to boot on platforms with both EFI and legacy BIOS options. The current implementation copies the kernel, initrd, and rootfs twice, unnecessarily bloating the image size. This is an especially egregious bug on -sato images.