Re: Updating EFI boot loader results in boot hangup

From: Larry Rosenman <ler_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:09:23 UTC

I would assume just rename the bootx64.old to bootx64.efi

and/or put it in a different directory that EFI can see

On 08/12/2022 3:03 pm, Nuno Teixeira wrote:

> I'm searching without success to load a bkp loader in case of boot 
> failure.
> 
> Upgrade process willl be like:
> ---
> mount -t msdosfs /dev/nvd0p1 /mnt
> cp /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.old
> cp /boot/loader.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
> ---
> 
> I can't find the right docs to load bootx64.old.
> Could you tell me what you did to solve your boot?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia sexta, 12/08/2022 
> à(s) 18:45:
> 
>> From: Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: Updating EFI boot loader results in boot hangup
>> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:26:11 +0100
>> 
>>> Hello Yasu,
>>> 
>>> Does it needes to update boot loader everytime that we upgrade 
>>> current?
>> 
>> No, you need not.
>> 
>>> The only time that I updated was a month ago because of zfs upgrade 
>>> and I need to practice how to boot
>>> loader bkp file :)
>> 
>> I update boot loader everytime because I'd like to do it :-).
>> And sometimes problem hits upon me like this time and I contribute to
>> debugging base system :-):-).
>> 
>> ---
>> Yasuhiro Kimura
> 
> --
> 
> Nuno Teixeira
> FreeBSD Committer (ports)

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