[Bug 1429030] Re: netboot mini.iso doesn't support UEFI boot

[Leonardo Müller]

I tried Precise, Trusty, Bionic and Cosmic amd64 Mini ISOs and all of
them are booting successfully in QEMU with OVMF. However, none of them
are booting in a UEFI physical machine.

It's strange this bug is present for three years: both Desktop and
Server images have a functional bootloader. Those unused FAT12 partition
take as much as 1/6 of the Mini image sizes.

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Title:
  netboot mini.iso doesn't support UEFI boot

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The amd64 mini.iso (in at least trusty through current vivid) has an
  EFI boot partition, but it's empty. This renders the image unbootable
  on systems without BIOS boot enabled.

  This is easily worked around by copying {boot,grub}x64.efi from eg. a
  desktop image into the empty partition.

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