Re: [PATCH] bless command

[Bean]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Michal Suchanek<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2009/8/29 Bean <address@hidden>:
>> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
>> Serbinenko<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Actually, I think the correct handling is to first bless a boot
>>>> directory (storing the directory id in header), then bless a boot file
>>>> (add +tbxi attribute), that's why the bless command in OSX needs needs
>>>> both --folder and --file option.
>>> AFAIK --file has no effect for intel macs.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After more testing, I believe the booting process works like this:
>>
>> One important difference between openfirmware and efi is that
>> openfirmware stores file path in nvram, while efi stores device path.
>> The default boot file for openfirmware is like this:
>>
>> device:\\+tbxi
>>
>> Which means the files which +tbxi attribute in the blessed directory.
>>
>> But efi only store the boot device (uuid), so it needs to use the
>> blessed file to boot.
>>
>> So to distinguish these two situation, we can have too options for bless:
>>
>> bless [--bootinfo PATH_TO_BOOTX] [[--bootefi PATH_TO_BOOTEFI]
>>
>> --bootinfo set the blessed directory plus +tbxi, while --bootefi set
>> the blessed file, this way we could specify different boot files for
>> openfirmware and efi, something like this:
>>
>> bless --bootinfo /grub.elf --bootefi grub.efi
>>
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to do a check in bless that determines if the
> file is for openfirmware of efi?

Hi,

I think it would be better to specify the type explicitly, as there
are multiple formats supports by both platform. OpenFirmware support
bootinfo, xcoff and elf, while efi support i386-efi, x86_64-efi and
fat binary.

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