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

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Montag, den 20.07.2009, 17:54 +0200 schrieb Julien BLACHE:
> 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.
> 
Ok.
I added now a Suggests: efibootmgr but it would be good if grub-install
would support it.
Oh and in upstream there's a patch for a bless command for grub2, which
modifies the HFS+ somehow like bless --directory

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-04/msg00425.html

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Felix Zielcke