Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/22/2019 20:16, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Karl Denninger: > >> On 6/22/2019 14:05, Rebecca Cran wrote: >>> On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Featur

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Karl Denninger: > On 6/22/2019 14:05, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: > >> I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived > >> upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Feature" > >> upgrade that reset the default boot in

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread karl
Like it or not UEFI BIOS firmware frequently not only sucks it also violates the alleged "rules" as to what it should support. - Karl (on PDA)   Original Message   From: rebe...@bluestop.org Sent: June 22, 2019 17:31 To: k...@denninger.net; freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 2019-06-22 13:34, Karl Denninger wrote: > > All I had to do was put the EFI loader in a directory under the UEFI > partition and Refind found it.  I didn't have to specifically tell it > that it was there. Sorry, I'm not talking about rEFInd. I know how great it is. I'm talking about systems

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/22/2019 14:05, Rebecca Cran wrote: > On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: >> I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived >> upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Feature" >> upgrade that reset the default boot in the firmware to Windows; it >> d

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
On 2019-06-22 12:59, Karl Denninger wrote: > > I use Refind for this sort of thing and it has (thus far!) survived > upgrades.  The only "gotcha" is that I had a Windows 10 "Feature" > upgrade that reset the default boot in the firmware to Windows; it > didn't damage anything but did require that I

Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Karl Denninger
On 6/22/2019 13:34, Rebecca Cran wrote: > I just upgraded my UEFI system firmware, and not unexpectedly lost the > "FreeBSD" boot manager entry after the settings got reset to default. I > was left with "Windows", "opensuse" and two "UEFI OS" entries. > > The "opensuse-secureboot" entry wasn't auto

UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?

2019-06-22 Thread Rebecca Cran
I just upgraded my UEFI system firmware, and not unexpectedly lost the "FreeBSD" boot manager entry after the settings got reset to default. I was left with "Windows", "opensuse" and two "UEFI OS" entries. The "opensuse-secureboot" entry wasn't automatically recreated, but since the "opensuse" ent