On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Gleb Natapov <g...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The problem is that it works reasonably well with legacy BIOS
> since it is enough to specify device to boot from, but with EFI (OF is
> the same I guess) it is not enough to point to a device to boot from,
> but you also need to specify a file you want to boot and this is where
> bootindex approach fails. If EFI would specify default file to boot from
> firmware could have used it, but EFI specifies it only for removable media
> (what media is not removable this days, especially with virtualization?).

The UEFI spec now mentions under "Non-removable Media Boot Behavior"
that \efi\boot\boot*.efi can be used as a fallback for non-removable
media.

-Jordan

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