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   Message 7,549 of 8,232   
   Gerrit Kuehn to Kai Richter   
   uefi   
   27 May 22 16:18:25   
   
   MSGID: 2:240/12 6251c1c2   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   REPLY: 2:240/77 6290c50c   
   CHRS: LATIN-1 2   
   TID: hpt/fbsd 1.9 2021-12-02   
   Hello Kai!   
      
   27 May 22 13:13, Kai Richter wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:   
      
      
    GK>> I talked about cases where something is broken and your system    
    GK>> doesn't boot (maybe not even the bootmanager comes up). With MBR this    
    GK>> means reconfiguring BIOS boot order,   
      
    KR> You have to enter the uefi shell by the same way: Dive into the BIOS    
    KR> and select it. If the system doesn't boot the boot override function    
    KR> is essential.   
      
   No, the default config of a BIOS usually is to come up with EFI shell if   
   everything else fails.   
      
    KR> I couldn't. The, no, my uefi shell is not self explaining. I failed    
    KR> to start a running system from the uefi shell. Well, ok, my fault.   
      
   Yes, that's the part that took me some time, too. ;)   
   However, the basic things are not that hard once you find out how it works.   
      
    GK>> Some manufacturers provide firmware and bios update tools on efi   
    GK>> meanwhile. In that case, you can just drop the new firmware and the   
    GK>> upgrade tool on a USB stick and use UEFI-shell to run it from there.   
      
    KR> So i have to wait until my BIOS company updates it's tools and i can    
    KR> save them within the BIOS.   
      
   ?   
   Sorry, you lost me there.   
      
    GK>> In the MBR-days you would have needed to have a MSDOS-system on the   
    GK>> USB stick in addition   
      
    KR> Why DOS? We need to kickstart the boot sequence.   
      
   I was talking about updating BIOS or firmware in your system here, not getting   
   a broken system online again. Updating usually involves some kind of Windows   
   software. As I don't use Windows, this doesn't help me. The fallback option   
   usually is something DOS-based (if it exists), but this requires some extra   
   steps. Having a EFI-based update tool is less of a hassle.   
      
    KR> I'v seen an EFI editor which my bios doesn't have. Now i've to check    
    KR> if anyone provides this efi software.   
      
   Which software are you looking for? Most things can be set up with efibootmgr   
   under Linux (or FreeBSD).   
      
      
   Regards,   
   Gerrit   
      
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