GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Fri Jan 18 19:35:07 UTC 2019


> 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.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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