RE: [Linux-ia64] efibootmgr error

Egan Ford
2002-01-19T06:44:54Z

Matt, thank you for the rapid response. It does work.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-ia64-admin@linuxia64.org
> [mailto:linux-ia64-admin@linuxia64.org]On Behalf Of Matt_Domsch@Dell.com
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: egan@sense.net; linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
> Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] efibootmgr error
>
>
> > One of my cluster nodes gets this error when running efibootmgr:
> >
> > write_variable():open(/proc/efi/vars/Efi-47c7b226-c42a-11d2-8e
> > 57-00a0c969723
> > b): No such file or directory
>
> It means that the specific file doesn't exist. What BIOS/Firmware are you
> using? Is it EFI 1.1-based?
>
> There's a new copy of efibootmgr 0.4.0-test4 that I posted to linux-ia64 a
> couple weeks ago that fixes this. Rather than assume a fixed variable
> exists, it uses the first variable it can to do the writing.
>
> Please download and try
> http://domsch.com/linux/ia64/efibootmgr/efibootmgr-0.4.0-test4.tar.gz.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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