August 22, 2019 12:23 AM, "O. Hartmann" <ohartm...@walstatt.org> wrote:
> Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:58:24 -0500 > Karl Denninger <k...@denninger.net> schrieb: > >> I would see if you can get REFIND loaded and use that. I have a Lenovo >> X1 Carbon Gen 6 and that's the answer I used, as it allows multi-boot >> (e.g. Win10 and FreeBSD) easily. > > mmmhhh, Linux software to make FreeBSD boot? ;-) rEFInd is not "Linux software", I use it to get a nice menu to choose between FreeBSD and Windows on my desktop. No Linux in sight. If anything, rEFInd has its roots in Macs :) > This Lenovo firmware seems very reluctant or the efibootmgr doesn't operate > properly on > setting variables: when trying to label the boot number (e.g. Boot000A) with > "-L FreeBSD", it > is always set back to "Boot000A ATA HDD0". On other platforms, like Fujitsu > servers or even > the cheap crap from ASRock a label once set is permenent until deleted. Many laptops just ignore the boot variables outright. My X240 is the same. I never switched to a proper efibootmgr setup on mine, I just have loader.efi as bootx64.efi and that's it. >> If there's a way to get into the EFI shell on Lenovo's laptops from the >> BIOS during the boot I've not found it yet. There's supposed to be on >> all EFI devices, but you know how "supposed to" works in many cases, right? You can just download the EFI Shell from the internet, it's a normal .efi executable you can "boot". Put it as efi/boot/bootx64.efi onto a USB flash drive and enjoy. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
