Re: FreeBSD 14.1 and UEFI boot ignores bootme flag

On 2024-08-13 10:23, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> (..)
>> At some point I succeeded in deleting the dvd, but now I see its back.
> 
> This may be added by BIOS / Setup :-)
> 
>> So how do I add a second boot partition?
> 
> Use efibootmgr as imp suggested and add another entry with desired
> boot information, you may then select this new entry as the default.
> It will show up in BIOS / Setup menu and you can change order over
> there.. but the entry needs to be added with efibootmgr :-)
> 
> No worries I had the same problem too some time ago, also found
> reference to bootme flag which did not work (should be removed from
> man pages?). Now I sometimes use F8 at boot to select different system
> to boot.. but there are good looking menu like bootloaders for UEFI
> like reEFInd [1], Clover [2], LibreBoot [3]. Maybe we need some more
> documentation on this? :-)
> 
I too found efibootmgr(8) unnecessarily cumbersome. So much so, that I ended 
writing
a script to use it more effectively.
In the end I downloaded a refind [1] image. Wrote it to a USB stick, booted 
it and
installed it. It's dead simple, just does the right thing, and just works. 
Almost never
need to futz with anything. I'm no stranger to (U)EFI or the boot process. 
But IMHO
FreeBSD is not (average) user friendly in the (multi) boot department. Either 
multiple
FreeBSD, or OS's. Maybe I should make a port out of refind, or get permission 
to integrate
some of it into $BASE.

1.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REFInd

I'm currently using the 13.3.2 flashdrive image on a 15-current install
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.13.1/refind-flashdrive-0.13.2.zip/download

I simply unpacked it, and performed dd if=./refind-flashdrive-0.13.2.img 
of=/dev/da0 bs=1m
I'm booting FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Slackware, and Windows11 on the laptop I'm 
writing this from.
In your computer setup; simply choose refind as your default boot, and your 
done.

HTH

--Chris