UUID setting type

Name

  :uuid

Examples

Display the system UUID

  iPXE> show uuid
  smbios/uuid:uuid = 86a9f546-d31b-4ba2-9bbb-303b61bcf8d1
  
  iPXE> echo ${uuid}
  86a9f546-d31b-4ba2-9bbb-303b61bcf8d1

Description

Represents a type of setting that is a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID).

Notes

UUIDs are 16-byte values stored in network byte order as defined by RFC 4122. Some software treats UUIDs as being stored in little-endian byte order. You can format a UUID in little-endian byte order using the guid setting type.

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