[systemd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] systemctl: Add reboot to firmware support

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Heya,

On 17 March 2015 at 08:10, Jan Janssen <medhefgo at web.de> wrote:
>
> I certainly see the point of not adding fsck mode indication, but I'd still like to see
> this one go in. If your firmware and/or bootloader won't give you a chance to, the os is
> your only chance should you still be able to boot to it. And it's quite hard to even find
> out how to reboot to firmware unless you know that it's called os indication. There isn't
> even any convenient tool out there that allows you to do so, the best thing is fiddling
> with the variable yourself using the shell[1].
>

Both gummyboot and grub-efi have a menu option to reboot into
firmware, is that not enough? Why do we need to have it from userspace
/ the booted system?

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.