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adtac on July 8, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead

The target image would need to reset that field so that a second reboot puts you back into the bootloader because otherwise you'll be stuck booting that image forever.

rcxdude on July 9, 2024 [–]

The image doesn't need to do it, that's how UEFI bootnext works: the firmware resets the flag before it loads the image.

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