Prerequisite: Tails with an amd64 kernel (e.g. from current devel branch). Tested with syslinux 6.02+dfsg-1. sudo apt-get install syslinux/experimental \ syslinux-common/experimental isolinux/experimental # make the system partition an *EFI System Partition* (ESP) parted "$TAILS_DEVICE" set 1 boot on mkdir -p "$TAILS_MOUNTPOINT"/EFI/BOOT && \ cp /usr/lib/SYSLINUX/efi64/syslinux.efi \ "$TAILS_MOUNTPOINT"/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi && \ cp "$TAILS_MOUNTPOINT"/syslinux/* "$TAILS_MOUNTPOINT"/EFI/BOOT/ && \ /bin/cp -f /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/efi64/* "$TAILS_MOUNTPOINT"/EFI/BOOT/ * With Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, the UEFI nightly release does work, while it didn't work previously. * boots on ThinkPad X220 (syslinux 6.02+dfsg-1 and 3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-1~bpo60+1) in UEFI mode * ThinkPad X230 (syslinux 3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-1~bpo60+1): - boots fine in UEFI mode, but displays the syslinux menu very much translated to the top: one can see the two menu entries, but nothing else, so if one must edit the kernel command-line, they have to do it blindly - boots fine in Legacy BIOS mode, so at least we have no hardware support regression here * boots on ThinkPenguin Royal (syslinux 6.02+dfsg-1 and 6.03~pre1+dfsg-1) * boots on MacBook Pro 13-inch Mid 2012 9,2 (EFI 2.9), and MacBook Pro 13-inch Late 2011 8,1 (EFI 2.7), both with and without rEFInd *if* `menu background splash.png` is removed from `stdmenu.cfg`; adding `menu resolution 640 480` before `menu background` makes the menu display "correctly" (only taking 1/4 of the screen, but oh well), *but* the system does not boot; without rEFInd, one has to press Alt before powering the laptop up, and keep it pressed until a menu appears, and then choose the entry that's called *Boot EFI* (as every other entry) and looks like a USB stick. * on MacBook Pro 13-inch Mid 2012 with rEFInd, one has to choose *Fallback boot loader from Tails* in rEFInd to boot, as the *Boot Linux from Tails* entry does nothing at all (syslinux 6.02+dfsg-1 and 6.03~pre1+dfsg-1) * The ThinkPenguin Royal does not detect the bootloader if installed as `EFI/Tails/syslinux.efi`; hence the use of the fallback bootloader path (`BOOT/bootx64.efi`), which should work on more hardware. * tails-i386-feature_uefi-0.23-20131222T0855Z-8acf864.iso boots fine on a Apple MacBook Air 13" mid 2011 (MacBookAir4,2) once installed with Tails Installer * MacBook Pro 15-inch Mid 2010 (6,2) boots fine with rEFInd and tails-i386-feature_uefi-0.23-20131222T0855Z-8acf864.iso, *if* `menu background splash.png` is removed from `stdmenu.cfg`; if one adds `menu resolution 640 480` before `menu background`, the system does not boot. * Lenovo ThinkPad X130e: tails-i386-feature_uefi-0.23-20140104T0920Z-3305611.iso boots fine. * Lenovo E325: tails-i386-feature_uefi-0.23-20140104T0920Z-3305611.iso boots fine. * MacBook Air Original (1,1): one has to press Esc twice in rEFInd to have it see the USB stick; then, rEFInd apparently loads syslinux, that fails to display its menu, even after commenting out most menu-related setting that has to do with color or positioning. Finally, Tails does not boot. * Fails to boot in VirtualBox (version?) with EFI enabled. * ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X55VD: boots fine with `menu background splash.png` removed (both with CSM enabled and disabled); only boots in CSM mode with `menu background splash.png` kept in place * Boots fine on ThinkPad W520 (tails-i386-feature_uefi-1.0-20140324T1026Z-dd350d4.iso). * Boots fine on Lenovo ThinkPad E320 (tails-i386-feature_uefi-1.1-20140407T1357Z-02a2adf) * Boots fine on Macbook Pro 11,3 (15 Inch Retina-Late 2013)

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