Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:38:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 14.1 and UEFI boot ignores bootme flag Message-ID: <CANCZdfoqJkcgvG_oS_nQfQABvq8E5sQO7piggj_42Qf=6iA3PA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0C0CF611-4C88-4EF1-9F9A-3A35D5236854@cs.huji.ac.il> References: <0C0CF611-4C88-4EF1-9F9A-3A35D5236854@cs.huji.ac.il>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 12:11 AM Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote: > hi, > my disk has 2 root partitions, and once I switched to UEFI boot, > can’t boot the second partition: > (the hardware is a bit old, Dell PowerEdge R710 with bios from 05/22/2018) > > store-08# gpart show -l > => 40 5857345456 mfid0 GPT (2.7T) > 40 81920 1 efi (40M) > 81960 8388608 2 root (4.0G) > 8470568 8388608 3 root0 [bootme] (4.0G) > 16859176 8388608 4 d1 (4.0G) > 25247784 8388608 5 d2 (4.0G) > 33636392 5823709104 6 zfs (2.7T) > > it only boots from partition 2. > > so is there any magic? > Use efibootmgr. Bootme flags are non-standard and have been ignored in UEFI since the start. Or better yet, use boot environments. They are so much nicer than ufs ping pongs. Warner thanks, > danny > > > [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 12:11 AM Daniel Braniss <<a href="mailto:danny@cs.huji.ac.il">danny@cs.huji.ac.il</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi,<br> my disk has 2 root partitions, and once I switched to UEFI boot, can’t boot the second partition:<br> (the hardware is a bit old, Dell PowerEdge R710 with bios from 05/22/2018)<br> <br> store-08# gpart show -l<br> => 40 5857345456 mfid0 GPT (2.7T)<br> 40 81920 1 efi (40M)<br> 81960 8388608 2 root (4.0G)<br> 8470568 8388608 3 root0 [bootme] (4.0G)<br> 16859176 8388608 4 d1 (4.0G)<br> 25247784 8388608 5 d2 (4.0G)<br> 33636392 5823709104 6 zfs (2.7T)<br> <br> it only boots from partition 2.<br> <br> so is there any magic?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Use efibootmgr. Bootme flags are non-standard and have been ignored in UEFI since the start.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or better yet, use boot environments. They are so much nicer than ufs ping pongs.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> thanks,<br> danny<br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div></div></div>
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