On Sun, 23 Mar 2025, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Goyette <p...@whooppee.com>
Message-ID: <pine.neb.4.64.2503221223020.8...@speedy.whooppee.com>
| My default is the efi wedge, since that is the one marked with the
| ``bootme'' attribute.
That sounds wrong to me, bootme is a BSD invention (FreeBSD orig I believe),
there would be no point setting that on an ESP as the firmware has found,
and used, that, before anything that understands bootme starts running.
I think its intention is to set which partition is to be the default root.
My machine doesn't work this way. It fails to boot if I mark the
NetBSD partition; instead it proceeds to the next bootable device.
The bootme flag seems to be acting as "this is where bootx64.efi is
found".
I maintain a complete bootable backup system on a second drive, so
when the firmware finds no *.eefi in the bootme wedge, it ends up
loading boot.cfg and friends from the backup, which is not desired.
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