From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:12:42 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] efibootmgr 0.3.3-test4 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org By request, here's another drop of efibootmgr. http://domsch.com/linux/ia64/efibootmgr-0.3.3-test4.tar.gz. I added a -w flag, which writes a per-system-unique signature to the MBR of the MBR-partitioned disk you're creating the boot option for. The signature is just the st_rdev field from struct stat, but that will be per-system-unique. If you don't specify -w, and the disk signature is 0 (the default made by fdisk and friends), you'll get a nice ugly warning that the EFI Boot Manager may not be able to detect what disk you're trying to boot from. As always, patches and feedback welcome. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux #2 Linux Server provider with 17% in the US and 14% Worldwide (IDC)! #3 Unix provider with 18% in the US (Dataquest)!