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On 04/25/14 14:11, Glen Barber wrote:
> Author: gjb
> Date: Fri Apr 25 21:11:00 2014
> New Revision: 264935
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264935
>
> Log:
>    Add a separate script to build the memstick.img and the
>    mini-memstick.img with UEFI support.
>    
>    As the comments in the file suggest, 1) there must
>    be existing ${.OBJDIR}/usr/src/release/{release,bootonly};
>    2) TARGET/TARGET_ARCH must be amd64; and 3) it must be
>    a vt(4)-enabled kernel with vt_efifb (*not* vt_vga).
>    
>    This script is not hooked into release/Makefile in any way
>    until further testing is complete.
>    
>    Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
>
> Added:
>    head/release/amd64/make-uefi-memstick.sh   (contents, props changed)
>
>

I understand this is for testing, but is there any reason we can't just 
have one GPT memstick that boots both BIOS and EFI eventually? Or is 
that the plan already?
-Nathan