Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 11, 2014, at 2:09 PM, Gareth Williams wrote: > >> There's an argument for totally ignoring NVRAM. rEFInd, an EFI boot manager, >> produces its boot entries dynamically from fstab, a static configuration >> file, and the contents of /boot. It ignores NVRAM, there's no constantly >> mo

Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-11 Thread Gareth Williams
There's an argument for totally ignoring NVRAM. rEFInd, an EFI boot manager, produces its boot entries dynamically from fstab, a static configuration file, and the contents of /boot. It ignores NVRAM, there's no constantly modified grub.cfg on the EFI system partition when kernels are updated

Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-11 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 10, 2014, at 11:39 PM, Gareth Williams wrote: > On 11/07/14 06:24, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Jul 10, 2014, at 4:56 AM, "Williams, Gareth" >> wrote: >> >>> My question therefore is: Does anaconda do something else after running >>> 'efibootmgr' to make it permanent? Or: Why can anacon

Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-10 Thread Gareth Williams
On 11/07/14 06:24, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jul 10, 2014, at 4:56 AM, "Williams, Gareth" wrote: My question therefore is: Does anaconda do something else after running 'efibootmgr' to make it permanent? Or: Why can anaconda update NVRAM using efibootmgr, while I can't? 'no bootable device' s

Re: NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 10, 2014, at 4:56 AM, "Williams, Gareth" wrote: > My question therefore is: Does anaconda do something else after running > 'efibootmgr' to make it permanent? Or: Why can anaconda update NVRAM using > efibootmgr, while I can't? 'no bootable device' sounds suspiciously like a BIOS mess

NVRAM changes not persistent with efibootmgr

2014-07-10 Thread Williams, Gareth
After a frozen install while trying to make a dual-boot system I had to hard-reboot my laptop using the power button.   On restarting, I was greeted with a UEFI message telling me that there was no bootable device installed!  I quickly inserted a boot CD and managed to boot into my inst