Bug#427492: grub-efi: bless equivalent for Linux

Julien BLACHE jblache at debian.org
Mon Jul 20 15:54:38 UTC 2009


Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:

> Ah I just read now the backlog of the bug and it would only work when
> booted through EFI, so not a complete solution probable.

There is no other solution. You need to be able to get/set EFI
variables, and that's only possible when booted through EFI with an
EFI-enabled kernel. (and the efivars module)

Also efibootmgr doesn't handle all that's needed for OS X to be happy
with the boot variables.

JB.

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