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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2018 18:11:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive
Message-ID:  <201807060111.w661BEbj050010@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <6889B6B2-A102-4832-9319-124CEE081784@lists.zabbadoz.net>

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> On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> 
> > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> >> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote:
> >>
> >>> FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32.
> >>
> >> We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as
> >> well at https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI
> >
> > IIRC FreeBSD recently cnahged to FAT16 or 32 on these
> > as the size got pushed up to be larger than what FAT12
> > can access.
> 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/stand/efi/boot1/generate-fat.sh?annotate=332561#l45
> 
> nope.

That is not the code we build release images with,
that is Warners tests for the boot loader.


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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