Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:28:12 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>, Allan Jude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: CURRENT: EFI boot failure Message-ID: <20140917002812.64cf7848.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <5418B8C3.7040406@FreeBSD.org> References: <20140916020541.03c18d04.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <54178607.1060305@freebsd.org> <541786BE.6010105@freebsd.org> <20140916075121.29989a53.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <5417E20D.8070607@freebsd.org> <20140916230348.189e80cd.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <CAPyFy2AicKf-PWGDnq80Zmm8ukwTkURZm8RRUFxdfHK=Xd7XAQ@mail.gmail.com> <5418B8C3.7040406@FreeBSD.org>
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--Sig_/KQlEit_U9N8rbiJyxS4aZBv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Wed, 17 Sep 2014 01:25:07 +0300 Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> schrieb: > On 17/09/2014 00:32, Ed Maste wrote: > > On 16 September 2014 17:03, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> w= rote: > >> > >> In that case, is it still /boot/boot1.efifat or is it /boot/boot1.efi?= What is the > >> difference? Is the efi partition FAT? > >=20 > > An EFI system partition (ESP) is a FAT-formatted partition with a > > specific GPT or MBR identifier and file system hierarchy; EFI firmware > > will try to load /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI from the ESP. >=20 > A very useful read about how EFI boot process works and how different OSe= s boot > on top of it: > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/efi-boot-process= .html Great! >=20 > > boot1.efi is an EFI application - that is, a PECOFF format binary. It > > searches for a UFS filesystem and loads loader.efi from that. It is > > intended to simplify the UEFI boot process, so that loader.efi, the > > .4th files, loader.conf etc. do not all need to be installed in the > > ESP. > >=20 > > boot1.efifat is a FAT filesystem image that contains a copy of > > boot1.efi as /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI. It exists so that the installer > > can treat it as opaque bootcode, like other boot schemes. It's > > certainly possible to create a partition, use newfs_msdos to format > > it, and copy in boot1.efi instead. > >=20 > >> It is one disk, dedicated to FreeBSD (a laptop disk). Is there any doc= umentation > >> readable for non-developer for that matter? I'm curious about how EFI = works on > >> FreeBSD. > >=20 > > Better user-facing documentation is in progress; for now the best > > source is probably the wik. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > >=20 >=20 >=20 --Sig_/KQlEit_U9N8rbiJyxS4aZBv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUGLl9AAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8AVsH/jgnkRNvWvDr3vYglQGFcEQt l/uv0hXzc/308E8ltmTazHEA0g1d6l1CtwImAvMmYrenQVFnxhnAbSa32YLRPtq/ D5dkr+8Ssygup97yD3gkWZbB16YdhH07n8g6JJ70hDvTMUiRVoRN8e6i9XHYEbEq BBTAvaFICv6Q5Sv2kcwqjBAyOZ9vP483bHQU5EvpX6OrOQs/pUANi1Vr8BDE4Arp JLA5wAlXK3+xetMu2IoTGulGnrEIUUnzldIGZ1jd/rLI2YpwXIbmE5Y7XRn9o8Q3 zKHA+GMXuhoMhom3NPMNGiSidGxKDIBh2Y7UEIoEcQ2ozP+h8Sl+QD85TFJoZDE= =k4EI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/KQlEit_U9N8rbiJyxS4aZBv--
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