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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              ... 4:18PM up 65 days, 21:24, 8 users, load averages: 0.59, 0.50, 0.51              --- msged/fbsd 6.3 2021-12-02        * Origin: We are the second generation (2:240/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 92/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201       SEEN-BY: 114/709 120/340 123/131 129/305 330 331 153/7715 154/10 214/22       SEEN-BY: 218/0 1 109 501 650 700 810 830 840 850 860 870 880 221/1       SEEN-BY: 221/6 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112 113 206 317 400 424       SEEN-BY: 229/426 428 452 470 550 616 664 700 240/12 1120 1634 1895       SEEN-BY: 240/8001 8002 8005 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/854 301/1 113 812 303/0 313/41 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 335/364 341/66 342/200 371/0 382/147 396/45 460/58 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 2432/390 2452/250 3634/12 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 240/12 1120 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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