Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:35:04 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: lev@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config) Message-ID: <201901181935.x0IJZ4tX057034@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <1a19320b-2211-129c-b213-96601814e0d0@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 18.01.2019 21:14, Toomas Soome wrote: > > > errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is not working - the code is there to be fixed. > And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot from partition > which has one, even if it is loaded from other partition itself. > > > GPT does not have the concept of active partition. > It has "bootme" / "bootonce" attributes. And [zfs]gptboot doesn't have > any tools to set these attributes, AFAIK. Same for UEFI boot code. The gpart(8) command is used to set/unset these. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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