On Apr 14, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto(a)mit.edu> wrote:
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> Create a boot menu entry can be skipped if it's not a dual boot system.
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT contains shim.efi as bootx64.efi which is run by default on a system
without an NVRAM entry already pointing to shim or grub, and a fallback entry is created
automagically. With Windows, yeah you probably have to do something manually because it
probably always boots Windows otherwise.
>
Not on my crappy motherboard :( It apparently can't boot from
EFI/BOOT on a hard disk. Sigh.
Huh, you're sure? You have to either remove all removable NVRAM boot entries, or you
have to remove the file/device the entry points to trigger the use of
//BOOT/BOOT<arch>.efi. If this isn't working, what does happen instead? It just
hangs?
I tried to clarify it a bit, though.
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>>>> It's currently mostly working, modulo the efibootbgr issue. But I
>>>> don't actually know what to type into efibootmgr to fix it, the OOPS
>>>> notwithstanding. I can probably figure it out once the OOPS is fixed.
>>>
>>> Strictly speaking you don't need to point UEFI non-Secure Boot computer
to shim.efi, you can just leave it alone and put a grub.cfg in the proper place. At the
grub prompt if you type set you should see either config_directory= and prefix= to show
where it's looking for the grub.cfg.
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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73761
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085957
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> I'm not familiar with this usage: efibootmgr -B -b 0
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> If 0 is the same as 0000 then that seems to ask for the removal of a fixed entry: the
DVD in CSM-BIOS mode (?) which I wouldn't expect to work, ever. But then it also
shouldn't crash the kernel.
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> A valid command would be efibootmgr -b 0003 -B
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-B -b 0 seems to be the same as -B -b 0000, and my 0000 isn't the same
as your 0000 :)
I'm basing it off the 0000 entry in your bug 73761. It points to a DVD drive.
> Something that properly deals with restoring shim, grub,
grub.cfg, and NVRAM would be nice. But the NVRAM part might be a rat hole, seeing as some
of the manufacturer NVRAM behaviors are pretty icky. And on top of that don't seem to
have a good way for users to reset/wipe it. It's something I think the UEFI Forum
ought to put in the standard and require it.
Anaconda does this somehow, I think. Even just exposing that would be nice.
No all it does is look for a Fedora boot entry in NVRAM and then uses efibootmgr -b xxxx
-B against it. It doesn't have a mechanism, nor should it, to obliterate everything in
NVRAM which can contain a lot more than just boot entries.
ls -l /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
Two dozen variables. On my Mac there's 50+ items including speaker and brightness
level.
Chris Murphy