Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:47:07 -0600 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UEFI on -stable Message-ID: <C99DA3A9-C63D-4A1B-ABD9-A828593FEECD@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <CAJuc1zMxzVUWMwq8TxcVX%2BnB-fVk2HOpgXw%2B47uDJhPhLTc13w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJuc1zMxzVUWMwq8TxcVX%2BnB-fVk2HOpgXw%2B47uDJhPhLTc13w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > I notice that the UEFI code has now been merged to -stable, and I'm > kinda keen on playing with it. Is there any documentation associated > with it? >=20 > There appears to be a few new files on /boot: boot1.efi, boot1.efifat, > loader.efi. Since I've already got a system with an EFI System > Partition, is it as simple as just copying boot1.efi onto it, eg: > EFI/FreeBSD/boot1.efi > and configuring the BIOS to use that to boot? There's some information on the wiki, including a walk-through of = creating a USB image to test EFI booting: https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI Speaking from only minimal experience, I _think_ you can do what you're = asking by copying the loader to the correct path a la cp loader.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi (assuming the EFI partition is on /mnt). JN
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