> On 27 Aug 2019, at 08:08, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 5:32 PM Rebecca Cran <rebe...@bsdio.com
> <mailto:rebe...@bsdio.com>> wrote:
>
>> On 8/26/19 5:22 AM, O. Hartmann wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> the other thing is the weird Lenovo handling of the UEFI vars. The only
>> way to
>>> boot the E540 (after(!) disabling _BEARSSL in src.conf and rebuilding
>>> everything) was to set the loader's name to EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi.
>> Setting the
>>> variable to contain EFI/BOOT/loader.efi failed as well as setting
>>> EFI/FreeBSD/loader.efi.
>>
>>
>> I've been suggesting FreeBSD should install the loader as
>> \EFI\BOOT\BOOTx64.efi for a while (as long as there's not already a
>> different vendor's loader there), without much success. Hopefully this
>> finding can cause us to reconsider.
>>
>
> That's the first machine I've seen where you have to set the name like
> that... there is a larger story here and we are getting incomplete reports
> because it doesn't quite make sense yet...
>
> But there are enough reasons not to do that by default. For one thing, it
> messes up rEFInd, or can. Windows doesn't install there. At most we should
> prompt for older machines. We shouldn't mortgage our future to cope with a
> legacy we know will sunset soon...
>
> Warner
>
For me it is still confusing if this is path versus upper-lower capital chars.
If that vendor is using suggestion from UEFI Spec 2.7A section 3.5.1.1 (page
91), then the file name should also end with .EFI. (and yes, I know, that
section is talking about removable media).
Therefore the question is, does lenovo accept name like EFI/FREEBSD/LOADER.EFI?
Or what form is used there for windows paths?
If we should or should not use EFI/BOOT path - perhaps the installer should
prefer vendor path by default. But till there is confusion, there should be
some notes in some documentation...
rgds,
toomas
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