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

[karl at denninger.net]

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: rebecca at bluestop.org
Sent: June 22, 2019 17:31
To: karl at denninger.net; freebsd-current at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: UEFI firmware and getting FreeBSD recognized by default: who to talk to?


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 without rEFInd, using only the default OEM supplied system
firmware, since we can't rely on everyone having rEFInd installed.


--
Rebecca Cran

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