Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:03:41 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=C3=A9?= <olivier@freebsd.org> To: lev@freebsd.org Cc: Rebecca Cran <bcran@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config Message-ID: <CA%2Bq%2BTcp2%2BsavH1g0q3b9YQ9SW76iXZ2PA6wvj2ok-cUOndZeWw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <eb14f962-1c13-cc77-0e8c-575028f7c5d7@FreeBSD.org> References: <etPan.5c413a8a.7a8e2073.13b3@freebsd.org> <eb14f962-1c13-cc77-0e8c-575028f7c5d7@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and > so code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if > loader.conf can be considered the correct place and boot.config forgotten > about? > Please, not, please support /boot.config. loader.conf could be too late > in case of serial consoles. > > I wonder, why EFI/UEFI and GPt booting (which should be more advanced) > is more limited than classic MBR/boot0 + boot1 + loader scheme :-( > > Serial console support is worse. Selection of boot partition is not > supported (as opposide to very-simple-516-bytes boot0!), and so on :-( > > > Hi, As an heavy nanobsd user on headless (serial/IPMI SoL) appliances, being able to early select the boot partition by MBR/boot0 and configuring early message redirection (with boot.config) is very useful. Not being able to do the same with GPT/EFI is the feature preventing me to upgrade my nanobsd image scheme. So if there is a way of displaying EFI boot loader messages over serial/IPMI SoL and selecting boot partiton, I've no objection to remove boot.config support. Regards, Olivier
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