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On 09/15/14 17:36, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2014-09-15 20:05, O. Hartmann wrote:
>> Installing FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20140903-r270990 on a Laptop works for UEFI fine.
>> After I updated the sources to  r271649, recompiled world and kernel (as well as
>> installed), now I get stuck with the screen message:
>>
>>>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
>>     Loader path: /boot/loader.efi
>>
>> and nothing happens. After a couple of minutes, the system reboots.
>>
>> What happened and how can this problem be solved?
>>
> You might need to update the boot1.efi file on the UEFI partition (small
> FAT partition on the disk)
>
> I am not sure how 'in sync' boot1.efi (on the fat partiton) and
> loader.efi have to be.
>
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI
>

boot1.efi is designed never to need updating. (It also hasn't changed 
since April)
-Nathan