From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 4 09:57:43 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBD51509FEC for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:57:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk (outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk [95.142.156.253]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D1E6907AB for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:57:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk (unknown [82.71.56.121]) (Authenticated sender: mailpool@milibyte.co.uk) by outmx-028.london.gridhost.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7448D20B6F539 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:57:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.1.13] (helo=curlew.localnet) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h0kLk-0000oy-S7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:57:33 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:57:32 +0000 Message-ID: <3063037.gzUHUCRiql@curlew> In-Reply-To: <6737c29e1674ce03a3c253a7c92cdc4e07686536.camel@smormegpa.no> References: <6737c29e1674ce03a3c253a7c92cdc4e07686536.camel@smormegpa.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Subject: Re: Failed to load '/boot/loader.efi' X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6D1E6907AB X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk designates 95.142.156.253 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.72 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.35)[-0.347,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ptr]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.44)[-0.445,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.79)[0.787,0]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mail3.eqx.gridhost.co.uk]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[milibyte.co.uk]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[253.156.142.95.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.1]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; CTE_CASE(0.50)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:198047, ipnet:95.142.156.0/22, country:GB]; MID_RHS_NOT_FQDN(0.50)[]; IP_SCORE(0.14)[asn: 198047(0.78), country: GB(-0.09)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.29 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:57:43 -0000 On Sunday, 3 March 2019 19:10:01 GMT Matthias Oestreicher wrote: > If not and you are just trying to manually install FreeBSD and want to > boot ZFS filesystem via UEFI, then you have to create an EFI partition > and copy the EFI bootcode from /boot/boot1.efi onto it. ... and rename it appropriately for your architecture, e.g. BOOTx64.efi on an amd64 system > The EFI partition can be anywhere on the disk, like first, last or in > the middle somewhere. You need 200M of free space. If you are only running FreeBSD on your system you can get away with something smaller. My system boots fine with 800K. But the EFI partition does need to be a FAT filesystem. -- Mike Clarke.