Re: [PATCH] bless command

[Vladimir Serbinenko]

Hello

Do you mean run grub-emu as part of a linux installation to bless grub.ef?

It seems to leave the problem of booting the linux installer, which is easy to do from grub.efi - if it is blessed.

At present we install grub.efi manually, using only grub-mkimage to build grub.efi, without using other grub utilities, and mostly just use preloaded modules.

You can use the bootable CD of your favourite distro. I hope that grub2.efi will become a default bootloader to install on efi system for major linux distributions

Here is some more info for the intel mac -

Further checking shows that Apple EFI will detect and boot an unblessed file named boot.efi but only if the enclosing folder is blessed.

Will not boot unblessed grub.efi in the same folder.

im81:~ pxw$ bless --info /Volumes/hfsp 

finderinfo[0]:   7891 => Blessed System Folder is /Volumes/hfsp/efi/test

finderinfo[1]:      0 => No Blessed System File

finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty

finderinfo[3]:      0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder

finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset

finderinfo[5]:   7891 => OS X blessed folder is /Volumes/hfsp/efi/test

64-bit VSDB volume id:  0x0F87F7680B9C5211

im81:~ pxw$ ls /Volumes/hfsp/efi/test 

boot.efi grub.cfg grub523.efi grub523.icns grub64.icns

im81:~ pxw$ 

That boots boot.efi using the Option key. 

Could you determine the priority? E.g. if you have both blessed file and boot.efi in blessed directory which one is loaded?
 

For OSX boot.efi -

im81:~ pxw$ bless --info /

finderinfo[0]:    149 => Blessed System Folder is /System/Library/CoreServices

finderinfo[1]: 297081 => Blessed System File is /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty

finderinfo[3]:      0 => No OS 9 + X blessed 9 folder

finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset

finderinfo[5]:    149 => OS X blessed folder is /System/Library/CoreServices

64-bit VSDB volume id:  0x0F8CB2A6A4C456E8

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