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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