-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:29:29 +0000 greg@unrelenting.technology schrieb:
> August 22, 2019 12:23 AM, "O. Hartmann" <ohartm...@walstatt.org> wrote: > > > Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:58:24 -0500 > > Karl Denninger <k...@denninger.net> schrieb: > > > >> I would see if you can get REFIND loaded and use that. I have a Lenovo > >> X1 Carbon Gen 6 and that's the answer I used, as it allows multi-boot > >> (e.g. Win10 and FreeBSD) easily. > > > > mmmhhh, Linux software to make FreeBSD boot? ;-) > > rEFInd is not "Linux software", I use it to get a nice menu to choose between > FreeBSD and > Windows on my desktop. No Linux in sight. If anything, rEFInd has its roots > in Macs :) My apologizes; when searching the net, the first "logo" I see is this silly penguine face. I'm sorry about making such simple implications. > > > This Lenovo firmware seems very reluctant or the efibootmgr doesn't operate > > properly on > > setting variables: when trying to label the boot number (e.g. Boot000A) > > with "-L FreeBSD", > > it is always set back to "Boot000A ATA HDD0". On other platforms, like > > Fujitsu servers or > > even the cheap crap from ASRock a label once set is permenent until > > deleted. > > Many laptops just ignore the boot variables outright. My X240 is the same. > I never switched to a proper efibootmgr setup on mine, I just have loader.efi > as bootx64.efi > and that's it. I tried copying loader.efi as bootx64.efi - but didn't help. > >> If there's a way to get into the EFI shell on Lenovo's laptops from the > >> BIOS during the boot I've not found it yet. There's supposed to be on > >> all EFI devices, but you know how "supposed to" works in many cases, > >> right? > > You can just download the EFI Shell from the internet, it's a normal .efi > executable you can > "boot". Put it as efi/boot/bootx64.efi onto a USB flash drive and enjoy. I'll give this a chance as soon I have hands on the workitem again. Regards, oh - -- O. Hartmann Ich widerspreche der Nutzung oder Übermittlung meiner Daten für Werbezwecke oder für die Markt- oder Meinungsforschung (§ 28 Abs. 4 BDSG). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEARYIAB0WIQSy8IBxAPDkqVBaTJ44N1ZZPba5RwUCXV4GZQAKCRA4N1ZZPba5 R56KAQDCWHc/QwWG7hT+uOG78KyB6z2KjPpzpvDWI5ZuUcm0RQEAzIjkfTwDm+V6 IUa2Tyiq8Y3Ce8Q8ohuFaCX838CcQQA= =Hoa2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
