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Date:      Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:13:11 -0700
From:      Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To:        Josef El-Rayes <josef@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot installed freebsd
Message-ID:  <4112BF07.3070109@intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040804131525.GA11724@daemon.li>
References:  <20040802134019.GA27996@daemon.li> <20040802160829.GB2366@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <20040804131525.GA11724@daemon.li>

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On 8/4/2004 6:15 AM, Josef El-Rayes wrote:

> 
> okay, i mounted the EFI partition as /efi in sysinstall/disklabel and
> let it autocreate the rest. i used the disc2(livefilesystem) to mount
> /dev/da0p2 to /mnt where i found a freebsd installation. there
> i moved boot/ into efi/ and symlinked boot->efi/boot.
> 

This has worked for me in the past. Please doubly verify that when you move boot/ into efi/, that directory has mounted the right filesystem (msdos fs).

I normally use the loader.efi and the kernel on the install CD to boot with root=ufs:da0p2 and then populate the EFI partition.

	-Arun



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