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To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Subject: Re: Should/does loader.efi respect the "bootme" GPT attribute ?
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Warner Losh writes:

> >  > UEFI has its own bootnext protocol, that works in conjunction with =
the EFI
> >  > environment variables to have a more robust, less 'guess what I mea=
n'
> >  > approach. So all in all, it's hard, non-standard and doesn't play w=
ell with
> >  > UEFI."
> >
> >   Could it be used here?
> >
>
> Yes. It can.

Do you know of any good sources of documentation ?


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