Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-19 Thread Rebecca Cran
On Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:02:46 MST David Wolfskill wrote: > Does the above only apply to UEFI booting, or also to booting from > BIOS/MBR? It's only for UEFI booting. -- Rebecca Cran signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-19 Thread Rebecca Cran
On Friday, 18 January 2019 00:48:02 MST Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the > > ESP and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer > > read, and so console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf > Which change is t

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 20:13, Warner Losh wrote: > If your BIOS allows it, you can set the standard ConOut variables the UEFI > standard defines with the efivar program. In addition, you can add args to > the 'binary blob' part of the BOOT OPTIONS variables (Boot), though > efibootmgr doesn't currently

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:55 AM Lev Serebryakov wrote: > On 18.01.2019 17:10, Kyle Evans wrote: > > > There's some UEFI var that's supposed to serve the same kind of > > purpose as /boot.config -- early boot parameters. I think we had > > discussed implementing this at some point, but this hasn't

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:27 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:49 AM Kurt Jaeger > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto > the > > > ESP and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 17:10, Kyle Evans wrote: > There's some UEFI var that's supposed to serve the same kind of > purpose as /boot.config -- early boot parameters. I think we had > discussed implementing this at some point, but this hasn't been done > yet as far as I've seen. Would this be usable on your

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:49 AM Kurt Jaeger > > Hi! > > > > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the > > ESP and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer read, > > and so console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf > > > > Which chan

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:49 AM Kurt Jaeger Hi! > > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the > ESP and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer read, > and so console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf > > Which change is that ? > Mov

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 17:03, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be > read and so code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, > or if loader.conf can be considered the correct place and > boot.config forgotten about? >

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Toomas Soome
The loader.efi (EFI application) can receive command line arguments, set up in UEFI boot manager. rgds, toomas > On 18 Jan 2019, at 16:14, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > Hello, > >> I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and so >> code should be added to loader to cont

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hello, > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and so > code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if loader.conf can > be considered the correct place and boot.config forgotten about? If the early boot messages are not displayed as Olivier mentione

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Kyle Evans
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:04 AM Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > > On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > > > > > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and > > so code should be added to loader to cont

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM Lev Serebryakov wrote: > On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and > so code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if > loader.conf can be considered the correct place and

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and so > code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if loader.conf can > be considered the correct place and boot.config forgotten about? Please, not, please support /b

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-17 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the ESP > and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer read, and so > console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf Which change is that ? > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-17 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 7:33 PM Rebecca Cran > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the > ESP and don’t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer read, > and so console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf. > I was wondering if people will expect /b

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-17 Thread David Wolfskill
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 07:31:38PM -0700, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the ESP > and don’t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer read, and so > console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf.  > I was wondering