EFIBOOTMGR 13 Released, First Update In More Than One Year

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EFIBOOTMGR 13 Released, First Update In More Than One Year

Written by Michael Larabel in Red Hat on 17 August 2016 at 06:30 PM EDT. Add A Comment

Red Hat developers have announced the release of efibootmgr 13, their open-source project for modifying the Intel EFI boot manager.

EFIbootmgr 13 adds support for --sysprep and --driver via their command-line utility to support UEFI System Prep Applications and UEFI drivers, error handling improvements, -m and -M command line options to support Memory Address Range Mirroring, adding efibootdump to examine boot variables, and various other bug fixes.

Learn more about efibootmgr via the project's GitHub site.

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