Re: FreeBSD 14.1 and UEFI boot ignores bootme flag

On 2024-08-13 13:04, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On 8/13/2024 16:02, Chris wrote:
>> 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
EDIT: I meant:
1.) https://www.rodsbooks.com/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
>> 
> Refind is an excellent option if you have multiple OSs installed on a given 
> machine.
> 
> If the intent is simply to ping-pong FreeBSD partitions then either what I
> suggested for a UFS filesystem setup or beadm for zfs is easier and faster.
I didn't see your suggestion before I replied, nor Warners. Both great 
advice. You
may be right. But I still think there could be some improvement for the 
"average" user,
in this department.
Most of my work is on servers. So I don't really ever need to deal with this 
sort of thing.
But when I do. I'm reminded of this.

> Karl Denninger
> karl@denninger.net
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--Chris