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@zackmsa777-a11y zackmsa777-a11y released this 10 Jul 18:31
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SageOS v5.1-beta6

Security-focused Linux distro (Debian bookworm base) with categorical "mission packs" — networking, web, password, wireless, sniffing, forensics, AD — installable/removable via sage-pkg and a friendly sage-security whiptail menu.

Fixed: UEFI boot dropped to the firmware's own interactive shell

If your VM is set to UEFI mode (VirtualBox EFI, or QEMU/OVMF), previous ISOs (beta5 and earlier) could fail with BdsDxe: failed to load Boot0001 "UEFI ... DVD-ROM"... Not Found, falling through PXE network boot attempts and finally landing at the raw UEFI Interactive Shell — never reaching GRUB or SageOS at all.

Root cause: the ISO's El Torito UEFI boot catalog entry pointed directly at the raw EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI executable path inside the ISO9660 filesystem. Real UEFI firmware expects that entry to point at a proper FAT-formatted disk image (which the firmware mounts as a virtual block device and then loads \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI from) — not a bare executable file path. We already shipped a correctly-formatted FAT image (efi.img) for exactly this purpose, but the ISO wasn't pointing its boot entry at it.

Fix: repointed the El Torito UEFI boot entry at efi.img instead of the raw executable path. Verified with real OVMF (EDK II) firmware in QEMU — UEFI boot now goes straight through GRUB to a working shell, no shell fallback, no PXE fallback.

Includes beta5's console-order fix (screen output works) and beta4's RAM-copy squashfs fix (fast on VirtualBox). If your VM boots BIOS/legacy mode, beta5 already worked for you — this release specifically fixes UEFI-mode boot.

x86_64 only — QEMU (Linux) and VirtualBox are the supported/tested targets.

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  • ISO (503MB): see assets below
  • Torrent: sageos-5.1-beta6.iso.torrent (HTTP webseed enabled)
  • Magnet: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:817d7de425326d0117d72948d5c1713988106166&dn=sageos-5.1-beta6.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&ws=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fzackmsa777-a11y%2Fsageos%2Freleases%2Fdownload%2Fv5.1-beta6%2Fsageos-5.1-beta6.iso

Still labeled beta6 — pending your confirmation before promoting to stable.

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