Re: [edk2] falling back to UiApp?

2017-04-27 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 04/27/17 07:40, Ni, Ruiyu wrote: > Laszlo, > I believe the "Unable to boot" message was added by intention. > > I just checked the UEFI Spec Boot Manager chapter again, still I didn't > find any wording to say what to do, when boot and recovery failure > happens. > > Putting "Unable to boot"

Re: [edk2] falling back to UiApp?

2017-04-26 Thread Andrew Fish
Laszlo, There is no platform policy in the UEFI spec by design. The spec is policy agnostic, as an ATM policy would be different from a server, etc. It's all implementation choice. Sent from my iPad > On Apr 26, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Ni, Ruiyu wrote: > > Laszlo, > I believe

Re: [edk2] falling back to UiApp?

2017-04-26 Thread Ni, Ruiyu
Laszlo, I believe the "Unable to boot" message was added by intention. I just checked the UEFI Spec Boot Manager chapter again, still I didn't find any wording to say what to do, when boot and recovery failure happens. Putting "Unable to boot" message there is to tell platform developer that

[edk2] falling back to UiApp?

2017-04-26 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Ray, the UiApp application is added to the UEFI boot order automatically, but it is not invoked automatically, even if BDS gives up and hangs with [Bds] Unable to boot! For example, consider the following: - no UEFI bootable application available anywhere in the system, - ... not even for