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Subject: Re: Should/does loader.efi respect the "bootme" GPT attribute ?
From: Jan Martin Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>
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I=E2=80=99m installing gptboot.efi into the EFI boot partition and using =
that to use the GPT attributes.

Is there an extra benefit to using loader.efi?

Regards,

Jan M.

> On 15 Dec 2020, at 15:00, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> =
wrote:
>=20
> It looks to me like the GPT attributes "bootme", "bootonce" and =
"bootfailed"
> are unknown to loader.efi ?
>=20
> Is this intentional or should it be fixed ?
>=20
> --=20
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
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