On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 08:24:08PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:49:59AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >>On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 09:45 +0100, David Härdeman wrote: >>> one option that doesn't seem to have been considered would be to create >>> a separate package (let's call it UEFIx) that installs an UEFI binary to >>> EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. That binary could then do what the UEFI BIOS >>> should've done (i.e. look at the EFI vars for bootorder, bootnext, etc >>> and then go on to load the right bootloader). >> >>Interesting idea, does this stub bootloader already exist, or is it >>something someone would need to write? (Either way I think it's likely >>too late for Jessie, but perhaps something to think about for Stretch) > >Exactly. :-/
I tried writing a stub bootloader. It works fine in a TianoCore QEMU environment....unfortunately it's a no go on my HP laptop (8570p). The HP UEFI BIOS helpfully deletes the BootOrder variable altogether :/ So...it was a promising idea, but one that won't work :( -- David Härdeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
