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A comment on Linux 4.5-rc5: efivarfs fixed to avoid “rm -rf /” bricking UEFI. Parent comment

Re:Linux 4.5-rc5: efivarfs fixed to avoid “rm -rf /” brickin... by floatboth on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:06PM (#11154662)
FreeBSD actually doesn't have any support for EFI variables at all! It just installs the loader into the default location (bootx64.efi) and the loader does everything.
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Re:Linux 4.5-rc5: efivarfs fixed to avoid “rm -rf /” brickin... by protomyth on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:18PM (#11154748)
I guess I counted the loader as part of the system. Its installed by FreeBSD to do the job.
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