Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:10:56 -0600 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=C3=A9?= <olivier@freebsd.org> Cc: lev@freebsd.org, Rebecca Cran <bcran@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config Message-ID: <CACNAnaGm0AYmWO_T7yau1jYTxQE7i7LXceERDoHHBO1U%2BvTtSQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bq%2BTcp2%2BsavH1g0q3b9YQ9SW76iXZ2PA6wvj2ok-cUOndZeWw@mail.gmail.com> References: <etPan.5c413a8a.7a8e2073.13b3@freebsd.org> <eb14f962-1c13-cc77-0e8c-575028f7c5d7@FreeBSD.org> <CA%2Bq%2BTcp2%2BsavH1g0q3b9YQ9SW76iXZ2PA6wvj2ok-cUOndZeWw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:04 AM Olivier Cochard-Labb=C3=A9 <olivier@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > > > > > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read a= nd > > so code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if > > loader.conf can be considered the correct place and boot.config forgott= en > > about? > > Please, not, please support /boot.config. loader.conf could be too lat= e > > in case of serial consoles. > > > > I wonder, why EFI/UEFI and GPt booting (which should be more advanced) > > is more limited than classic MBR/boot0 + boot1 + loader scheme :-( > > > > Serial console support is worse. Selection of boot partition is not > > supported (as opposide to very-simple-516-bytes boot0!), and so on :-( > > > > > > > Hi, > As an heavy nanobsd user on headless (serial/IPMI SoL) appliances, being > able to early select the boot partition by MBR/boot0 and configuring earl= y > message redirection (with boot.config) is very useful. > Not being able to do the same with GPT/EFI is the feature preventing me t= o > upgrade my nanobsd image scheme. > So if there is a way of displaying EFI boot loader messages over > serial/IPMI SoL and selecting boot partiton, I've no objection to remove > boot.config support. > There's some UEFI var that's supposed to serve the same kind of purpose as /boot.config -- early boot parameters. I think we had discussed implementing this at some point, but this hasn't been done yet as far as I've seen. Would this be usable on your appliances?
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