[Nix-dev] Re: efibootmgr: A Linux user-space application to modify the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager

[Shea Levy]

On 3/6/11 11:08 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've written a nix expression for efibootmgr, a tool which allows you 
> to modify some of the nvram variables used by EFI and UEFI systems to 
> manage the boot process. efibootmgr should compile on non-{U,}EFI 
> systems, but since the tool relies on the information exported by the 
> efivars kernel module, which in turn requires that the kernel be 
> booted in {U,}EFI mode, it's useless unless you have a {U,}EFI system.
>
> Cheers,
> Shea Levy

Resubmitting a slightly cleaner patch for this.
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