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On Mac OS X there is a tool called nvram to get and set EFI properties. As I am now deploying GNU/Linux on Apple hardware, I'd like to have a similar tool that is able to talk to Apple's EFI implementation.
Are there tools to achieve this?
linux macintosh uefi
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On Mac OS X there is a tool called nvram to get and set EFI properties. As I am now deploying GNU/Linux on Apple hardware, I'd like to have a similar tool that is able to talk to Apple's EFI implementation.
Are there tools to achieve this?
linux macintosh uefi
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you should just be able to read them with theefivarsprogram available via package manager. However, if you took the (horrible!) advice offered by many - such as at this Ubuntu/Mac how-to - and converted your disk to a Hybrid MBR so you might boot Linux in legacy (read - BIOS) mode, then those variables are not available to you and will not be until you boot the Linux kernel in EFI-mode. Here is a far better tutorial on the subject.
– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 3:06
1
There's /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ holding those on my UEFI compatible systems upon efivars.ko module load but it was known a year or two ago that loading it might corrupt Apple's firmware, it was advised that one backs it up and has the backout plan/tools handy (see also rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html).
– Michael Shigorin
Sep 8 '14 at 13:08
@mikeservefivarsworks, at least for reading. About all those Apple-Firmwares-Will-Be-Destroyed-Warnings... I never got authoritative information about that.
– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:01
@mikeserv Would you write an answer aboutefivars?
– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:02
I dont have any Apples and so i dont know the ins and outs well enough to make any authoritative calls in that respect. Youre far better off cruising rodsbooks as Michael has suggested - Rod Smith is about as authoritative as it gets in my opinion on this subject. I do know that theres little mystery there - i can read those withprintfandodin a pinch. You might also look into thecloverbootloader forums - which is the other active refit fork and is what all of the hackintosh guys use. I am curious though and i may dig into it. Can i ask - what do you wanna do with them?
– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 22:13
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On Mac OS X there is a tool called nvram to get and set EFI properties. As I am now deploying GNU/Linux on Apple hardware, I'd like to have a similar tool that is able to talk to Apple's EFI implementation.
Are there tools to achieve this?
linux macintosh uefi
edited Sep 7 '14 at 21:35
Gilles
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On Mac OS X there is a tool called nvram to get and set EFI properties. As I am now deploying GNU/Linux on Apple hardware, I'd like to have a similar tool that is able to talk to Apple's EFI implementation.
Are there tools to achieve this?
linux macintosh uefi
linux macintosh uefi
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you should just be able to read them with theefivarsprogram available via package manager. However, if you took the (horrible!) advice offered by many - such as at this Ubuntu/Mac how-to - and converted your disk to a Hybrid MBR so you might boot Linux in legacy (read - BIOS) mode, then those variables are not available to you and will not be until you boot the Linux kernel in EFI-mode. Here is a far better tutorial on the subject.
– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 3:06
1
There's /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ holding those on my UEFI compatible systems upon efivars.ko module load but it was known a year or two ago that loading it might corrupt Apple's firmware, it was advised that one backs it up and has the backout plan/tools handy (see also rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html).
– Michael Shigorin
Sep 8 '14 at 13:08
@mikeservefivarsworks, at least for reading. About all those Apple-Firmwares-Will-Be-Destroyed-Warnings... I never got authoritative information about that.
– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:01
@mikeserv Would you write an answer aboutefivars?
– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:02
I dont have any Apples and so i dont know the ins and outs well enough to make any authoritative calls in that respect. Youre far better off cruising rodsbooks as Michael has suggested - Rod Smith is about as authoritative as it gets in my opinion on this subject. I do know that theres little mystery there - i can read those withprintfandodin a pinch. You might also look into thecloverbootloader forums - which is the other active refit fork and is what all of the hackintosh guys use. I am curious though and i may dig into it. Can i ask - what do you wanna do with them?
– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 22:13
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you should just be able to read them with theefivarsprogram available via package manager. However, if you took the (horrible!) advice offered by many - such as at this Ubuntu/Mac how-to - and converted your disk to a Hybrid MBR so you might boot Linux in legacy (read - BIOS) mode, then those variables are not available to you and will not be until you boot the Linux kernel in EFI-mode. Here is a far better tutorial on the subject.
– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 3:06
1
There's /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ holding those on my UEFI compatible systems upon efivars.ko module load but it was known a year or two ago that loading it might corrupt Apple's firmware, it was advised that one backs it up and has the backout plan/tools handy (see also rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html).
– Michael Shigorin
Sep 8 '14 at 13:08
@mikeservefivarsworks, at least for reading. About all those Apple-Firmwares-Will-Be-Destroyed-Warnings... I never got authoritative information about that.
– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:01
@mikeserv Would you write an answer aboutefivars?
– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:02
I dont have any Apples and so i dont know the ins and outs well enough to make any authoritative calls in that respect. Youre far better off cruising rodsbooks as Michael has suggested - Rod Smith is about as authoritative as it gets in my opinion on this subject. I do know that theres little mystery there - i can read those withprintfandodin a pinch. You might also look into thecloverbootloader forums - which is the other active refit fork and is what all of the hackintosh guys use. I am curious though and i may dig into it. Can i ask - what do you wanna do with them?
– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 22:13
1
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you should just be able to read them with the
efivars program available via package manager. However, if you took the (horrible!) advice offered by many - such as at this Ubuntu/Mac how-to - and converted your disk to a Hybrid MBR so you might boot Linux in legacy (read - BIOS) mode, then those variables are not available to you and will not be until you boot the Linux kernel in EFI-mode. Here is a far better tutorial on the subject.– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 3:06
you should just be able to read them with the
efivars program available via package manager. However, if you took the (horrible!) advice offered by many - such as at this Ubuntu/Mac how-to - and converted your disk to a Hybrid MBR so you might boot Linux in legacy (read - BIOS) mode, then those variables are not available to you and will not be until you boot the Linux kernel in EFI-mode. Here is a far better tutorial on the subject.– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 3:06
1
1
There's /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ holding those on my UEFI compatible systems upon efivars.ko module load but it was known a year or two ago that loading it might corrupt Apple's firmware, it was advised that one backs it up and has the backout plan/tools handy (see also rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html).
– Michael Shigorin
Sep 8 '14 at 13:08
There's /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ holding those on my UEFI compatible systems upon efivars.ko module load but it was known a year or two ago that loading it might corrupt Apple's firmware, it was advised that one backs it up and has the backout plan/tools handy (see also rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html).
– Michael Shigorin
Sep 8 '14 at 13:08
@mikeserv
efivars works, at least for reading. About all those Apple-Firmwares-Will-Be-Destroyed-Warnings... I never got authoritative information about that.– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:01
@mikeserv
efivars works, at least for reading. About all those Apple-Firmwares-Will-Be-Destroyed-Warnings... I never got authoritative information about that.– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:01
@mikeserv Would you write an answer about
efivars?– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:02
@mikeserv Would you write an answer about
efivars?– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:02
I dont have any Apples and so i dont know the ins and outs well enough to make any authoritative calls in that respect. Youre far better off cruising rodsbooks as Michael has suggested - Rod Smith is about as authoritative as it gets in my opinion on this subject. I do know that theres little mystery there - i can read those with
printf and od in a pinch. You might also look into the clover bootloader forums - which is the other active refit fork and is what all of the hackintosh guys use. I am curious though and i may dig into it. Can i ask - what do you wanna do with them?– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 22:13
I dont have any Apples and so i dont know the ins and outs well enough to make any authoritative calls in that respect. Youre far better off cruising rodsbooks as Michael has suggested - Rod Smith is about as authoritative as it gets in my opinion on this subject. I do know that theres little mystery there - i can read those with
printf and od in a pinch. You might also look into the clover bootloader forums - which is the other active refit fork and is what all of the hackintosh guys use. I am curious though and i may dig into it. Can i ask - what do you wanna do with them?– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 22:13
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The tools available are going to vary between Linux distributions, but with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS live ISO booted from a USB stick on a 2011 MacBook Pro, nvram variables are readable in the filesystem:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ ls
AAPL,PathProperties0000-4d1ede05-38c7-4a6a-9cc6-4bcca8b38c14
AcpiGlobalVariable-af9ffd67-ec10-488a-9dfc-6cbf5ee22c2e
[...]
ThorUpdateResult-7c436110-ab2a-4bbb-a880-fe41995c9f82
Timeout-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ hexdump -C Lang-*
00000000 07 00 00 00 65 6e 67 |....eng|
00000007
To modify variables, install the efivar tool with apt.
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The tools available are going to vary between Linux distributions, but with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS live ISO booted from a USB stick on a 2011 MacBook Pro, nvram variables are readable in the filesystem:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ ls
AAPL,PathProperties0000-4d1ede05-38c7-4a6a-9cc6-4bcca8b38c14
AcpiGlobalVariable-af9ffd67-ec10-488a-9dfc-6cbf5ee22c2e
[...]
ThorUpdateResult-7c436110-ab2a-4bbb-a880-fe41995c9f82
Timeout-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ hexdump -C Lang-*
00000000 07 00 00 00 65 6e 67 |....eng|
00000007
To modify variables, install the efivar tool with apt.
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The tools available are going to vary between Linux distributions, but with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS live ISO booted from a USB stick on a 2011 MacBook Pro, nvram variables are readable in the filesystem:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ ls
AAPL,PathProperties0000-4d1ede05-38c7-4a6a-9cc6-4bcca8b38c14
AcpiGlobalVariable-af9ffd67-ec10-488a-9dfc-6cbf5ee22c2e
[...]
ThorUpdateResult-7c436110-ab2a-4bbb-a880-fe41995c9f82
Timeout-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ hexdump -C Lang-*
00000000 07 00 00 00 65 6e 67 |....eng|
00000007
To modify variables, install the efivar tool with apt.
answered Jan 15 '18 at 12:55
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The tools available are going to vary between Linux distributions, but with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS live ISO booted from a USB stick on a 2011 MacBook Pro, nvram variables are readable in the filesystem:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ ls
AAPL,PathProperties0000-4d1ede05-38c7-4a6a-9cc6-4bcca8b38c14
AcpiGlobalVariable-af9ffd67-ec10-488a-9dfc-6cbf5ee22c2e
[...]
ThorUpdateResult-7c436110-ab2a-4bbb-a880-fe41995c9f82
Timeout-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ hexdump -C Lang-*
00000000 07 00 00 00 65 6e 67 |....eng|
00000007
To modify variables, install the efivar tool with apt.
answered Jan 15 '18 at 12:55
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The tools available are going to vary between Linux distributions, but with a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS live ISO booted from a USB stick on a 2011 MacBook Pro, nvram variables are readable in the filesystem:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cd /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ ls
AAPL,PathProperties0000-4d1ede05-38c7-4a6a-9cc6-4bcca8b38c14
AcpiGlobalVariable-af9ffd67-ec10-488a-9dfc-6cbf5ee22c2e
[...]
ThorUpdateResult-7c436110-ab2a-4bbb-a880-fe41995c9f82
Timeout-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c
ubuntu@ubuntu:/sys/firmware/efi/efivars$ hexdump -C Lang-*
00000000 07 00 00 00 65 6e 67 |....eng|
00000007
To modify variables, install the efivar tool with apt.
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you should just be able to read them with the
efivarsprogram available via package manager. However, if you took the (horrible!) advice offered by many - such as at this Ubuntu/Mac how-to - and converted your disk to a Hybrid MBR so you might boot Linux in legacy (read - BIOS) mode, then those variables are not available to you and will not be until you boot the Linux kernel in EFI-mode. Here is a far better tutorial on the subject.– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 3:06
1
There's /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ holding those on my UEFI compatible systems upon efivars.ko module load but it was known a year or two ago that loading it might corrupt Apple's firmware, it was advised that one backs it up and has the backout plan/tools handy (see also rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html).
– Michael Shigorin
Sep 8 '14 at 13:08
@mikeserv
efivarsworks, at least for reading. About all those Apple-Firmwares-Will-Be-Destroyed-Warnings... I never got authoritative information about that.– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:01
@mikeserv Would you write an answer about
efivars?– Max Ried
Sep 8 '14 at 22:02
I dont have any Apples and so i dont know the ins and outs well enough to make any authoritative calls in that respect. Youre far better off cruising rodsbooks as Michael has suggested - Rod Smith is about as authoritative as it gets in my opinion on this subject. I do know that theres little mystery there - i can read those with
printfandodin a pinch. You might also look into thecloverbootloader forums - which is the other active refit fork and is what all of the hackintosh guys use. I am curious though and i may dig into it. Can i ask - what do you wanna do with them?– mikeserv
Sep 8 '14 at 22:13