Re: [Linux-ia64] efibootmgr-0.3.3-test5

[Stephane Eranian <eranian@frankl.hpl.hp.com>]

Matt,
> 
> Given that you can have load options with the same name (for whatever good
> it does), how might people want to see this fixed?
> 1) Warn the user, but do it anyway.  Probably doesn't help the installer app
> that calls efibootmgr.
> 2) Warn the user, do it anyway, append text to it like [1].  Not too pretty.
> 3) Warn the user, don't do it, need yet another flag to force it.
> 4) Make installer app more intelligent, something like:
> 	for b in `efibootmgr | grep "Red Hat Linux" | awk '{print $1}'`; do 
> 		efibootmgr -b $b -B
> 	done
> 
> 
> I prefer 4 myself, but could see adding 1) if desired.
> 
Clearly the installer should do 4) but a warning would be good too.

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-Stephane