How to set boot flags on UEFI Shell

Clark Powell — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:05:42 GMT

I have set the boot flags as shown below but when I boot the system comes up as if it has boot flags set to 0,0. The documentation hints that this approach should work but clearly I've left something out.

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Shell> set
vms_flags :
* path : .;fs0:\;fs0:\efi\boot;fs0:\efi\tools;fs1:\;fs1:\efi\boot;fs1:\es

Shell> set vms_flags 0,1

Shell> set
* path : .;fs0:\;fs0:\efi\boot;fs0:\efi\tools;fs1:\;fs1:\efi\boot;fs1:\es
vms_flags : 0,1

thanks

Clark Powell

Re: How to set boot flags on UEFI Shell

fhsjvl — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:09:45 GMT

Do you perform your boot interactively or do you wait for the first entry in the boot menu to start? In the latter case it could be that "-flags 0,0" is specified in that entry.

You can specify the boot flags in the boot entries and with vms_flags. It is unclear which of both takes precedence.

It is a mysterious thing. You are not the only one to see this problem. I have heard of several occasion where people having Integrity servers had this problem. Some of them configured their system for conversational boot but the system did a normal boot. Other persons wanted a normal boot but the system went conversational. I never heard a real explanation or solution for this problem.

According to the manuals you should give the command as: set vms_flags "0,1" (with quotes) but it seems very unlikely that this would make any difference.

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How to set boot flags on UEFI Shell

Re: How to set boot flags on UEFI Shell