On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 03:29:55PM +0100, Leo Unglaub wrote: > Hey, > > On 11/23/16 15:17, Mark Kettenis wrote: > >Right, something like that would work if you copy the OpenBSD EFI > >bootloader into /EFI/OpenBSD/BOOTX64.EFI on the EFI system partition > >first. > > why do i have to copy the EFI file first? Does the order matter? > > If yes, the correct workflow would be the following; > > 1: Install OpenBSD > 2: Start a Live-Linux image > 3: Write the UEFI entry with efibootmgr > 4: Reboot and hope the best :) > > Or does someone have a better suggestion? What about efibootmgr, is it worth > importing it into the OpenBSD source tree? Or do you guys want to do it > yourself and create something like a uefictl with a clean CLI to manage UEFI > corrcetly. I am not sure what the best way to go is here, but UEFI is not > going away and the people using it are only going to get more and more do to > larger discs becoming more common. > > Greetings > Leo >
Just a note, people could run UEFI VM inside qemu on OpenBSD. See https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-to-run-OVMF I only installed OpenBSD inside qemu with OVMF on OpenBSD and at least it booted fine. j.
