Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 08:36:34 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 12.1p7 no longer boots after doing zpool upgrade -a Message-ID: <CACNAnaGYha=gf1hP2jYt_Hvwfc7m0Lrr%2B5VQ-bY=-OYzO6ugag@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c82ee674-64fd-d9fd-6d1c-ee3cfbb682c6@ingresso.co.uk> References: <20200709131201.GA3464@co.gvr.org> <CACNAnaGbCknS18yLv1ow2FFnj5xSMHXQZgxfRPMUMTb5ujB=fw@mail.gmail.com> <c82ee674-64fd-d9fd-6d1c-ee3cfbb682c6@ingresso.co.uk>
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 8:32 AM Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On 09/07/2020 14:24, Kyle Evans wrote: > > >> gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1 ada0 > >> gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1 ada1 > > > > > > This method of updating the ESP is no longer recommended for new 12.x > > installations -- we now more carefully construct the ESP with an > > /EFI/FreeBSD/loader.efi where loader.efi is /boot/loader.efi. You will > > want to rebuild this as such, and that may fix part of your problem. > > Out of interest, how should the ESP partition be upgraded then ? I dont > have any EFI machines...yet. But one day I will, and I was assuming that > an upgrade would be done using the above lines too. > We haven't quite standardized on a good process yet, IMO, but for right now the correct process is to just mount the ESP and replace loader.efi with your system's updated /boot/loader.efi. At some point we'll standardize a mountpoint for the ESP and mount it by default as is done on at least some other OS.
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