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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:02:29 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: replacing zfs disk (freebsd-boot vs freebsd-efi)
Message-ID:  <20191030160229.GA97870@admin.sibptus.ru>
In-Reply-To: <c2bb2150-586f-cd40-ff28-ce4def01d200@sentex.net>
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mike tancsa wrote:

[dd]

> > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 2 ada0
> > The above ^^^^^ should be unnecessary. Your UEFI firmware will find the
> > partition of the "efi" type and try to load /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI from
> > there, which in turn will sniff your ZFS filesystems for the loader.
>=20
> I think FreeBSD's install added it by default. I wonder if that was done
> to make the disks portable between EFI and non EFI systems ? I will have
> to test to see if thats the case.

If you select "GPT (UEFI)" during installation, FreeBSD's install does
not even create a freebsd-boot partition.

If you select "GPT (BIOS)", it may create it, I think.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/

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