From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 22:28:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 442E58D8; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2C8A6BD; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.82) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1XU1EL-003SQL-GY>; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:28:13 +0200 Received: from g226063043.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.226.63.43] helo=thor.walstatt.dynvpn.de) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.82) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1XU1EL-002EUR-Cb>; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:28:13 +0200 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:28:12 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" To: Andriy Gapon 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> <5418B8C3.7040406@FreeBSD.org> Organization: FU Berlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/KQlEit_U9N8rbiJyxS4aZBv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-IP: 92.226.63.43 X-ZEDAT-Hint: A Cc: FreeBSD Current , Ed Maste , Nathan Whitehorn , Allan Jude X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:28:16 -0000 --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 schrieb: > On 17/09/2014 00:32, Ed Maste wrote: > > On 16 September 2014 17:03, O. Hartmann 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--