svn commit: r271762 - in head/sys/boot: amd64/boot1.efi efi/include efi/libefi

[Ed Maste]

On 18 September 2014 10:20, Bjoern A. Zeeb
<bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
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> Thanks a lot;  that massively helps debugging (as you can at least see what’s going on).   Eventually we might want to make that dependent on environment variables maybe?
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> For example on the Mac I have been using this for a while to see kernel boot messages:
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> % sudo nvram boot-args
> boot-args       -v
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> But I am not entirely confident with variable naming or sharing on dual-boot machines yet.  It seems the new world order has quite a bit to discover (research) still ;-)

Yes, once we add nvram environment variable support we will want to
provide a choice of switching to text mode in the loader or remaining
in graphics mode and hiding the boot process.

You are correct that there's a lot to sort out for dual-boot cases.