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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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CC: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
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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