Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:36:13 +0200 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: UEFI: How to go about updating the ESP with loader.efi during installworld Message-ID: <E90E3EA6-6B52-4D48-B080-9A5205423E4B@me.com> In-Reply-To: <f92ed623-8190-c3b9-cc82-ace86b1c5646@freebsd.org> References: <5091656.8gLySxXtyI@photon.int.bluestop.org> <f92ed623-8190-c3b9-cc82-ace86b1c5646@freebsd.org>
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> On 4 Nov 2018, at 23:25, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 2018-11-04 16:20, Rebecca Cran wrote: >> I'm currently working on creating and updating the ESP (EFI System Partition) >> for UEFI booting during installation and installworld. >> >> During installation, with my changes it gets mounted on /boot/efi and loader.efi >> copied into /boot/efi/EFI/FreeBSD and /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT. An entry gets added to >> /etc/fstab as noauto. >> >> The issue comes during installworld, where we'll need to update the loader, >> and I'm not sure how we should handle that. >> If NO_ROOT isn't defined, do we just "mount /boot/efi", overwrite the files then >> unmount it? What should we do if NO_ROOT _is_ defined? >> > > Previous to now, installworld has not updated the boot blocks. You've > had to manually run 'gpart bootcode' to change the boot blocks. > > However, those boot blocks mostly just loaded /boot/loader, which was > updated by installworld. > > So I can see how this is not directly analogous. > > I wouldn't depend on the /etc/fstab entry existing. I am not sure I want > installworld randomly fobbing around in my EFI partition. Especially if, > for example, my EFI/BOOT is not FreeBSD, but rEFInd or something. > I would not add fstab entry at all. First of all, what should I have there for my 3+1 raidz1?;) it is reasonable to have efi/freebsd directory, the efi/boot/bootx64.efi is hard one of course. But then again, it is problem only when we can not setup EFI bootmanager variables — the bootx64.efi is default when bootmgr is not set up. rgds, toomashome | help
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