[MinnowBoard] How do I boot from an SD card using the EFI shell?

[finwemartinez at gmail.com]

I recall there is a command for doing that on the EFI shell. I also has to do what Soeren said, but can't remember the commands that I used.



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On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:48 PM, jezra <jezra at jezra.net> wrote:

> Thank you, 
> I was unaware of the dos-centric nature of EFI, and that link
> definitely was informational.
> Now that I have done some more tinkering, I realize my problem had
> nothing to do with trying to boot from the "Misc" option. The problem I
> had is as follows:
> 1. A user writes and SD card image to an SD card for use with a
> Minnowboard Max
> 2. user boots Minnowboard Max with the SD card installed
> 4. in the firmware, the user needs to create a boot option for the SD
> card
> My problem, was step 4; I couldn't find a tutorial for creating a boot
> option for a pre-installed SD Card. 
> On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 12:46:44 -0700 (PDT)
> finwemartinez at gmail.com wrote:
>> I had this kind of problem, not sure if is the same, but this helped
>> me:
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>> http://serverfault.com/questions/569972/usb-drive-not-detected-in-intel-efi-shell
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>> Regards.
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>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, jezra <jezra at jezra.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > Yes, I can press F2 or DEL to get the BIOS like portion of the
>> > firmware, and from there I can navigate to the boot menu and select
>> > the "misc" option. However, there is a boot error displayed for a
>> > fraction of a second and then I am returned to the boot menu. 
>> > If I can boot from the EFI shell, I am hoping that I can get a
>> > proper look at the error message and resolve my boot problem.
>> > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 22:54:19 -0400
>> > James 'Trip' Humphries <james.humphries at knights.ucf.edu> wrote:
>> >> Are you able to get to the bios setup by typing 'exit' in the EFI
>> >> shell? Thats how I usually setup to boot from SD.
>> >> 
>> >> -Trip
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> James 'Trip' Humphries
>> >> James.Humphries at knights.ucf.edu
>> >> On 10/3/2015 9:24:18 PM, jezra <jezra at jezra.net> wrote:
>> >> In order to not use my precious data (I have a satellite internet
>> >> connection), I cloned an SD card from a working Minnowboard Max and
>> >> put the SD card in a new minnowboard max. Now I am stuck trying to
>> >> figure out how to boot the nrew minnowboard max from the sd card.
>> >> 
>> >> Jezra
>> >> 
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