[edk2-devel] BUG: tianocore does not honor the bootorder

[Gregory Lee Bartholomew]

On Mon, 2023-02-20 at 08:10 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 10:23:22AM -0600, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-02-17 at 14:08 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 02:20:23PM -0600, Gregory Lee Bartholomew wrote:
> > > > I have a script that uses Qemu to install a Linux OS to the supplied device. At
> > > > the end of the install script, efibootmgr is called to create UEFI boot entries
> > > > and set the boot order. However, every time I boot the VM, it boots to entry
> > > > 0004 "UEFI Misc Device" instead of the proper entry specified in the bootorder.
> > > > This is confusing a script that I have for managing multiple ESPs (the script
> > > > needs to detect the current ESP and sync its contents to secondary/backup ESPs).
> > >  
> > > > Please fix tianocore to honor the bootorder instead of creating its own entries.
> > > 
> > > ovmf orders the boot entries according to the qemu configuration
> > > (bootindex property for devices).  If you don't want that just remove
> > > all bootindex properties from your qemu command line.
> > > 
> > > take care,
> > >   Gerd
> > > 
> > 
> > I don't believe I've set a bootindex. Below is the script that I'm using to
> > start the qemu instances.
> 
> OVMF shouldn't touch the order then.  It will still create entries for
> the devices it finds (on first boot).  If you add more entries and put
> them first (by setting BootOrder accordingly) OVMF should try booting
> these first.
> 
> take care,
>   Gerd
> 

It was my mistake. My qemu instance was referencing the wrong OVMF_VARS.fd.
Tiano was automatically booting the system from that "Misc Device" entry because
the installer-created entries were from an old run and were pointing to invalid
partition UUIDs. I personally think it would be less confusing if that sort of
automation were not done and instead a proper error were reported to the admin.
But I guess I understand why that is being done.

Sorry for the bogus bug report.

gb


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