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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 2019 21:54:21 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GRUB port refurbish patch
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfr8%2BOsDNv3JXhj_7WUGuy8y8nph=i-oqHWLtLkxwRRsdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 7:35 PM Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> wrote:

> grub-install also tries to use efibootmgr to set up efi vars, which
> isn't present on FreeBSD.  You'll have to give it the --no-nvram
> argument (I'll probably add a patch to make that the default).
>

I wrote a mostly Linux compatible efibootmgr on FreeBSD that works great.
You do need efirt loaded or in your kernel. It's been in since before
12.0R, although there's been a number of bug fixes since then.

Warner



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