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Date:      Fri, 3 Aug 2018 11:45:34 +0300
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   efi netboot was Re: booting current from nano-neo/allwinner now failes
Message-ID:  <BB0FBAC4-FEA7-468D-9800-5E4D6E5DA86A@cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <1533232890.1369.49.camel@freebsd.org>
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[=E2=80=A6]

>=20
> With ubldr you set a uboot env var (rootpath) and it gets used instead
> of anything coming over the wire from the server (it's important that =
a
> locally-set value overrides dhcp/bootp values, because the server you
> can't control may deliver insane values).
>=20
>> =46rom what I've heard, the uboot uefi implementation doesn't give =
you a
> way to save persistent efi vars, so right now there's no way to set a
> local rootpath var. If we had persistent vars, I guess the thing to do
> would be to define a standard freebsd-specific variable to set the
> rootpath.
>=20
> -- Ian

so now that I=E2=80=99m trying out efiboot, typing bootp seems to do =
something,
it=E2=80=99s requesting and ip-based.img, is there some iPXE/pxeboot =
that I can use instead?

and yes, me too has control over the dns/dhcp - sorry Ian :-)

danny





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