657424 – sys-boot/efibootmgr default loader in manpage is incorrect

Bug 657424 - sys-boot/efibootmgr default loader in manpage is incorrect

Summary: sys-boot/efibootmgr default loader in manpage is incorrect

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Mike Gilbert

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Reported:	2018-06-05 19:46 UTC by Mason Loring Bliss
Modified:	2018-06-05 20:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:	https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/issues/93
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Description Mason Loring Bliss 2018-06-05 19:46:26 UTC

The man page describes efibootmgr's default behaviour when not passed -l:

       -l | --loader NAME
              Specify a loader (defaults to \\elilo.efi)

This is great, because it happens to be what I want. However, on running efibootmgr, it turns out that you guys substitute this instead:

    \\EFI\\Gentoo\\grub.efi

The best fix would be restoring the default so that the efibootmgr you ship matches what everyone else ships, but a second-best fix would be correcting the docs to correctly note the default path used if -l is not explicitly passed.

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2018-06-05 19:57:36 UTC

We set EFIDIR=Gentoo in the ebuild as documented in Make.defaults, and the build system does the rest.

Please contact the upstream developer to have the manpage updated.

Comment 2 Mason Loring Bliss 2018-06-05 20:30:31 UTC

Fair enough.

For anyone tracking this, I've opened an upstream bug here:

    https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/issues/93

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2018-06-05 20:52:07 UTC

Thanks!