Bug 230080

Summary: efibootmgr(8): Missing documentation of options -d, -p
Product: Documentation Reporter: O. Hartmann <ohartmann>
Component: Manual PagesAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: doc, imp
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description O. Hartmann 2018-07-27 05:27:25 UTC
The efibootmgr(8) is lacking proper documentation of the options -d (assuming device?) and -p (assuming partition?), as those options appear out of the blue in the examples, explaining how to create variables:

[...]
The efibootmgr program can	be used	to create new EFI boot variables. To
     create a new boot var pointing to an installation on partition 1 of
     device ada0 using the given loader	with a description FreeBSD-11:

	   efibootmgr -c -d ada0 -p 1 -l/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI -L FreeBSD-11

     This will result in the next available  [...]
Comment 1 Warner Losh freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-10-09 21:38:02 UTC
-d -p aren't supported, so this should be easier to do. :)
Also, the quoted text is no longer in the manual, so closing.