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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2016 09:14:10 -0400
From:      Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
To:        Naomichi Nonaka <nao@enuenu.org>
Cc:        Oliver Pinter <oliver.pinter@hardenedbsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Update on EFI work: refactoring ready for testing, GELI coming very soon
Message-ID:  <78C98A5F-7887-4950-AF7D-E6E979F7FD05@metricspace.net>
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> On May 16, 2016, at 04:51, Naomichi Nonaka <nao@enuenu.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hi Eric.
>=20
>> On 2016/05/16 5:37, Eric McCorkle wrote:
>> How close is that patch to going in?
>>=20
>> Something like this would be pretty straightforward following the
>> refactoring; however, its worth considering all the options here:
>>=20
>> * GRUB works fine pulling loader off the disk, with either ZFS or UFS,
>> with no boot1 at all. This was my setup for developing the ZFS support,
>> actually.
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> Is Grub + loader really work in EFI mode ?
>=20
> My test results are
> 1) Grub's kfreebsd command does not support loader.efi
> 2) Chainload loader.efi in Grub couldn't show display. maybe it work in ke=
adless but I didn't tested headless mode.
> 3) Chaiload boot1.efi in Grub works.
>=20
> That is why I wrote PR#207940. Maybe I miss something. So, If anyone succe=
ssed to boot in Grub + loader.efi combination, please let me know.

Strange.  The chainloader method works on one of my laptops.  It's possible t=
hat a patch since then has broken that.  I know somebody ported the loader m=
enu at some point.  Prior to that, it was just a loader shell, and that did w=
ork.  I'll try updating that laptop and see if it still works.=



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