On 08/09/14 10:55, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
>> Am 08.08.2014 um 19:20 schrieb Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> On 08/08/14 19:06, Andrew Fish wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Aug 7, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Reza Jelveh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Currently booting from devices works by setting 
>>>> EFI_REMOVABLE_MEDIA_FILE_NAME
>>>> based on the architecture in MdePkg/Include/Uefi/UefiSpec.h
>>>
>>> Well these are the defaults for removable media devices.
>>>
>>> A non removable device can set any value they want when the OS was
>>> installed and save it in an NVRAM variable. For a non-removable media
>>> boot device these are optional location to search for a recovery tool
>>> or generic boot manager if none of the NVRAM variables match. These
>>> are NOT well known loader addresses.
>>
>> See eg. Fedora's "fallback.efi":
>>
>> http://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/02/06/the-efi-system-partition/
> 
> Very nice writeup, thanks a lot.

Credit's due to Peter Jones of course, it's his blog! :)

Cheers,
Laszlo


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