Re: Loader needs to be updated message

void <void_at_f-m.fm> wrote on
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 13:19:24 UTC :

> hello again,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 03:13:59PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> >
> >What shows if you do the likes of (showing an amd64 context example):
> >
> ># ls -lah /boot/efi/efi/*/*
> >-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 643K Aug 24 05:32 /boot/efi/efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 643K Aug 24 05:32 /boot/efi/efi/FREEBSD/loader.efi
> >
> >If one is old, then it is probably the one actually being used.
> >(The name bootx64.efi is amd64 specific: other platforms use
> >other names.)
> >
> >In such a case, you might need something like:
> >
> ># cp -a /boot/loader.efi /boot/efi/efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi
> 
> I have the same issue in a completely different context:
> 
> 1. amd64 not arm64
> 2. a vm running in bhyve, not baremetal
> 3. the host is 15.0-CURRENT #0 n270917-5dbf886104b4 amd64 1500019 1500019 zfs-on-root
> built July 4th.
> 4. the guest is 13.4-STABLE stable/13-n258323-e7b4f6e0c064 amd64 1304500 1304500 zfs-on-root
> 
> 5. on the guest :- % gpart list | grep -Ew '(Name|efi)'
> 1. Name: vtbd0p1
> 2. Name: vtbd0p2
> 3. Name: vtbd0p3
> 1. Name: vtbd0
> 
> on the guest, there is no ESP in this case, no bootx64.efi, /boot/efi is empty

I'm more interested in what is there than just what is not
there. May be show something analogous to:

# gpart list |  grep -E '(Name|type|efi|media)'
1. Name: mmcsd1s1
   efimedia: HD(1,MBR,00000000,0x8000,0x3b68000)
   rawtype: 12
   type: fat32lba
1. Name: mmcsd1
1. Name: da0p1
   efimedia: HD(1,GPT,81f199f2-5eb9-11ec-b507-a0cec8d68fdc,0x28,0x82000)
   rawtype: c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b
   label: BPIM3efi
   type: efi
2. Name: da0p2
   efimedia: HD(2,GPT,efa6f52d-c8ca-11ec-bb1e-03fc0558c84f,0x82800,0x366000)
   rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   type: freebsd-swap
3. Name: da0p3
   efimedia: HD(3,GPT,71abc138-db5e-11ee-bfe1-e352d1095e3c,0x6861c800,0x732800)
   rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   type: freebsd-swap
4. Name: da0p4
   efimedia: HD(4,GPT,b568945a-5eba-11ec-b507-a0cec8d68fdc,0xa1c800,0x67c00000)
   rawtype: 516e7cb6-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
   type: freebsd-ufs
1. Name: da0

I'll note that on various type of systems, the (effectively)
ESP need not be specifically of "type: efi", possibly some
fat variant instead also works. (Of course, EFI need not be
the only alternative for various type of contexts.)

I'll note the /boot/efi is normally just an empty directory
that is possibly used as a mount point.

In some (somewhat older) configurations /boot/msdos is
similarly an empty directory and possibly used as the mount
point instead.

> After source building to latest stable in the usual way, same error message 'loader needs updating'.


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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com