Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:30:03 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 14.1 and UEFI boot ignores bootme flag Message-ID: <DC5F602B-894C-482F-9519-BB057B6DBB10@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoqJkcgvG_oS_nQfQABvq8E5sQO7piggj_42Qf=6iA3PA@mail.gmail.com> References: <0C0CF611-4C88-4EF1-9F9A-3A35D5236854@cs.huji.ac.il> <CANCZdfoqJkcgvG_oS_nQfQABvq8E5sQO7piggj_42Qf=6iA3PA@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > On 13 Aug 2024, at 15:38, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 12:11 AM Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il <mailto: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. I read the man for efibootmgr but it was way above my pay grade :-) I tried add/create but got nowhere. store-08# efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0000 Timeout : 0 seconds BootOrder : 0002, 0000, 0001 Boot0002* Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5709) +Boot0000* EFI Fixed Disk Boot Device 1 Boot0001* TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-L633C At some point I succeeded in deleting the dvd, but now I see its back. So how do I add a second boot partition? (If the sequence look fishy, it’s because I can change the boot sequence via DHCP) > > Or better yet, use boot environments. They are so much nicer than ufs ping pongs. > > Warner > >> thanks, >> danny [-- Attachment #2 --] <html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 13 Aug 2024, at 15:38, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><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: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">hi,<br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>81960 8388608 2 root (4.0G)<br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I read the man for efibootmgr but it was way above my pay grade :-) </div><div>I tried add/create but got nowhere.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">store-08# efibootmgr</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BootCurrent: 0000</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Timeout : 0 seconds</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BootOrder : 0002, 0000, 0001</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Boot0002* Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet (BCM5709)</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">+Boot0000* EFI Fixed Disk Boot Device 1</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Boot0001* TSSTcorp DVD+/-RW TS-L633C </span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000">At some point I succeeded in deleting the dvd, but now I see its back.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">So how do I add a second boot partition?</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">(If the sequence look fishy, it’s because I can change the boot sequence via DHCP)</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><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: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">thanks,<br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>danny</blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>
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