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Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf] by wolfgke on Saturday November 18, 2017 @09:46PM (#15731975)
> I recently suffered through a firmware update done via the UEFI command line, and it was incredibly painful. Every time I need to use the UEFI command line (normally for a firmware update) I want to scream.

What was so painful about updating the firmware via the UEFI Shell? I do/did it all the time this way for the diverse Minnowboard variants and cannot claim that it was painful.

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Re:“Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf] by drewg123 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:07AM (#15733755)
In general, because the EFI shell sucks and was designed by committee. On a machine with 36 disk drives, it was not easy to find the drive with the UEFI partition that held the firmware update. That's why I mentioned SRM -- the firmware updater built into SRM would try all the drives attached to the system.
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