Should/does loader.efi respect the "bootme" GPT attribute ?

Jan Martin Mikkelsen janm at transactionware.com
Tue Dec 15 14:53:42 UTC 2020


I’m installing gptboot.efi into the EFI boot partition and using that to use the GPT attributes.

Is there an extra benefit to using loader.efi?

Regards,

Jan M.

> On 15 Dec 2020, at 15:00, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
> It looks to me like the GPT attributes "bootme", "bootonce" and "bootfailed"
> are unknown to loader.efi ?
> 
> Is this intentional or should it be fixed ?
> 
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