Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 07:17:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeffrey Bouquet" <jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com> To: "Nuno Teixeira" <eduardo@freebsd.org> Cc: "Dimitry Andric" <dim@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD CURRENT" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: symlink to /boot/loader.efi Message-ID: <E1rGKny-0003yc-3Q@rmmprod05.runbox> In-Reply-To: <CAFDf7UKxDM1_9DqqHcXZWUc0KYJPfwX0KDn1qzNGQ8GCqU=WqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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I am wondering if all the information in this thread present and future sho= uld be included in the scenarios at the bottom of /usr/ports/UPDATING with technical explanati= ons about how and why? AFAIK the file was created before UEFI and thus in that regard= obsolete.=20 On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:59:54 +0000, Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wro= te: > Hello Dimitry, >=20 > For a moment I forgot that efiboot is a fat system... > I am inspired on what installworld does to kernel and kernel.old. > I was thinking in something like it but with efi boot, something automati= c. >=20 > Thanks! >=20 > Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia quinta, 21/12/2023 =C3= =A0(s) > 12:48: >=20 > > On 21 Dec 2023, at 13:22, Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > On every current upgrade I update efi/freebsd/loader.efi (amd64) and > > efi/boot/boota64 (aarch64) with new copies on /boot/loader.efi. > > > For safety reasons I always have a copy of last running loader by > > appending "-old.efi" to loader or boota64 and use beinstall to get BEs = if > > needed. > > > > > > Is that possible to link, e.g., /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi -> > > /boot/loader.efi ? > > > > Symlinks do not work on FAT file systems, so I assume you mean a symlink > > placed in /boot (assuming that is UFS or ZFS), which points to > > /boot/efi/efi/freebsd? > > > > At the moment I think installworld would not write 'through' such a > > symlink. In fact, it makes a hard link from /boot/loader_lua.efi to > > /boot/loader.efi, unlinking any previous /boot/loader.efi. > > > > That said, it would be nice to have some sort of semi-official way of > > upgrading the real EFI loader through installworld. It would probably > > require some top-level Makefile magic. > > > > -Dimitry > > > > >=20 > --=20 > Nuno Teixeira > FreeBSD Committer (ports)
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