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

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 19 09:46:41 UTC 2019


Hello Emmanuel,

Saturday, January 19, 2019, 12:10:13 AM, you wrote:

>  With UEFI Boot* variable you could do :

>  - Update previous partition and set BootNext to it
>  - If it fail next boot will be on current partition due to BootOrder
>  - If it succeed, change the BootOrder to have the new partition first.
 It will not work with GPT/Legacy, but looks like it is solution for UEFI.
 Thank you.

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 Lev                            mailto:lev at FreeBSD.org



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