Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:13:53 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Subject: Re: Upgrading u-boot on an rpi3 Message-ID: <20200319001353.GA70624@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <456B1ED8-B335-405B-AB7B-B65968631323@yahoo.com> References: <20200318054243.GA67865@www.zefox.net> <4B4CF1DF-F3C0-4ED3-AAC0-4FC0A8182787@yahoo.com> <20200318172339.GB67865@www.zefox.net> <456B1ED8-B335-405B-AB7B-B65968631323@yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:02:43AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > > > On 2020-Mar-18, at 10:23, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:42:09PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > >> Those last 2 lines above indicate that it found > >> your microsd card media and its bootaa64.efi just > >> fine. > >> > >> How old is this file? > > > > Rather ancient: > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 637000 Oct 10 2018 /boot/msdos/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi > > > > I have a newer version on a 12.x snapshot: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 609960 Nov 1 02:29 /mnt/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi > > Is it prudent to simply substitute the newer version for the older? > > You may want to extract a more modern one from a snapshot > if that does not work. > Turns out that the version of bootaa64.efi from the 12.x snapshot did the trick. > >> Have you been updating > >> it via copying /boot/loader.efi to it as > /boot/loader.efi is updated? > > Not following here. Loader.efi appears to be a file and seems to update > > during normal build/install cycles. It's unclear where bootaa64.efi comes > > from; there's only one copy in the filesystem after repeated OS update cycles. > > For the ARM boards involved, efi/boot/bootaa64.efi is a > copy of /boot/loader.efi . The loader copy used in booting > is placed on the msdosfs, not on ufs/zfs. > Ahh, now bells are ringing. IIRC there were some messages issued to this effect during either make or make install for u-boot-rpi3, at least formerly. > Example from the RPi4 context: > > # file /boot/loader.efi > /boot/loader.efi: MS-DOS executable PE32+ executable (EFI application) Aarch64, for MS Windows > > # file /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi > /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi: MS-DOS executable PE32+ executable (EFI application) Aarch64, for MS Windows > Thank you very much! bob prohaska
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