[Linux-ia64] efibootmgr error

[Linux-ia64] efibootmgr error

[Egan Ford]

One of my cluster nodes gets this error when running efibootmgr:

write_variable():open(/proc/efi/vars/Efi-47c7b226-c42a-11d2-8e57-00a0c969723
b): No such file or directory

What does this mean?  Why would this file be missing?

Thanks.

RE: [Linux-ia64] efibootmgr error

[Matt_Domsch]

> 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

--
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
#1 US Linux Server provider with 24.5% (IDC Dec 2001)
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RE: [Linux-ia64] efibootmgr error

[Egan Ford]

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
>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
> #1 US Linux Server provider with 24.5% (IDC Dec 2001)
> #2 Worldwide Linux Server provider with 18.2% (IDC Dec 2001)
>
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