Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:36:39 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Subject: Re: UEFI on -stable Message-ID: <CAPyFy2Chb85zyE0zg-=3mBMNSgeuozYZFTjT%2BkwLyVtqQPXbxQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C99DA3A9-C63D-4A1B-ABD9-A828593FEECD@jnielsen.net> References: <CAJuc1zMxzVUWMwq8TxcVX%2BnB-fVk2HOpgXw%2B47uDJhPhLTc13w@mail.gmail.com> <C99DA3A9-C63D-4A1B-ABD9-A828593FEECD@jnielsen.net>
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On 5 September 2014 15:47, John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> wrote: > On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > >> I notice that the UEFI code has now been merged to -stable, and I'm >> kinda keen on playing with it. Is there any documentation associated >> with it? >> >> There appears to be a few new files on /boot: boot1.efi, boot1.efifat, >> loader.efi. Since I've already got a system with an EFI System >> Partition, is it as simple as just copying boot1.efi onto it, eg: >> EFI/FreeBSD/boot1.efi >> and configuring the BIOS to use that to boot? > > There's some information on the wiki, including a walk-through of creating a USB image to test EFI booting: https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI > > Speaking from only minimal experience, I _think_ you can do what you're asking by copying the loader to the correct path a la > cp loader.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi > > (assuming the EFI partition is on /mnt). Assuming you want to use an EFI boot manager like rEFIt or rEFInd, you do want to install it as Jonathan suggested, and then configure the boot manager to offer it (if necessary).
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