Contents
Installed Programs:
efibootdump and efibootmgr
efibootmgr-18
Introduction to efibootmgr
The efibootmgr package provides tools and libraries to manipulate EFI variables.
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/rhboot/efibootmgr/archive/18/efibootmgr-18.tar.gz
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Download MD5 sum: e170147da25e1d5f72721ffc46fe4e06
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Download size: 48 KB
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Estimated disk space required: 1.1 MB
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Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
efibootmgr Dependencies
Required
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/efibootmgr
Installation of efibootmgr
Build efibootmgr with the following commands:
make EFIDIR=LFS EFI_LOADER=grubx64.efi
This package does not have a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install EFIDIR=LFS
Command Explanations
EFIDIR=LFS: This option
specifies the distro's subdirectory name under /boot/efi/EFI. The building system of this
package needs it to be set explicitly.
EFI_LOADER=grubx64.efi:
This option specifies the name of the default EFI boot loader. It
is set to match the EFI boot loader provided by GRUB .