Re: port-amd64/55954: bootx64.efi hangs up on boot

[Aleksey Arens <aza.sea.agenda%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello Matthew,

>  this might work if it was only performed only when bootx64.efi
>  is loaded from a disk, vs via pxe or something.  they may not
>  even be local disks at all in this case.

As diskless(8) suggests, in the PXE netboot case, the network has to
be used anyway for
subsequent steps.  What this means in practice is that in general for
the machine in
question the PXE netbooting is not going to be an option -- it would
simply hang up.

A diskless(8) also vaguely suggests that the configuration for
bootloader in the case of
PXE boot is supplied by means other than reading a local config file.

In general, the local config is used if the boot is performed from a
local disk, with the
kernel residing locally.  This behaviour does not involve the use of a
network, and it is
traditional.  So, it is a reasonable to require that network-related
functionality is only
be initialized whence a non-traditional behaviour is desired for local
disk boots, whence
a kernel is to be loaded from the network.  That would not be a common
configuration.