Re: FreeBSD 14.1 and UEFI boot ignores bootme flag
- In reply to: Cy Schubert : "Re: FreeBSD 14.1 and UEFI boot ignores bootme flag"
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:20:03 UTC
BINGO! btw, same here, I use UFS for root (or diskless) and zfs for al the rest i.e: /var thanks 10^6! danny > On 13 Aug 2024, at 10:13, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote: > > If your rootfs is ZFS then you need to use loader.efi with the caveat that > it doesn't honour the bootme flag. > > My UEFI systems are clones of my original systems. I use UFS root/usr with > ZFS for everything else. gptboot.efi and loader.efi work equally as well in > my scenario. > > > -- > Cheers, > Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> > FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org > NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org > > e^(i*pi)+1=0 > > > In message <20240813070253.81DF5DD@slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert writes: >> I don't think loader.efi honours the bootme flag. Try the gptboot.efi >> binary instead. It does honour the various GPT flags. >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> >> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org >> NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org >> >> e^(i*pi)+1=0 >> >> >> In message <9DEEEE5F-EC21-4CC5-BC5F-A10162D98365@cs.huji.ac.il>, Daniel >> Braniss >> writes: >>> hi Cy, >>> the boot code is the the latest, copied /boot/loader.efi to = >>> /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi >>> >>>> On 13 Aug 2024, at 09:50, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> = >>> wrote: >>>> =20 >>>> In message <0C0CF611-4C88-4EF1-9F9A-3A35D5236854@cs.huji.ac.il>, = >>> Daniel=20 >>>> Braniss >>>> writes: >>>>> hi, >>>>> my disk has 2 root partitions, and once I switched to UEFI boot, = >>> =3D >>>>> can=3DE2=3D80=3D99t boot the second partition: >>>>> (the hardware is a bit old, Dell PowerEdge R710 with bios from =3D >>>>> 05/22/2018) >>>>> =20 >>>>> store-08# gpart show -l >>>>> =3D3D> 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) >>>>> =20 >>>>> it only boots from partition 2. >>>>> =20 >>>>> so is there any magic? >>>> =20 >>>> Which bootcode do you have in your efi partition? >>>> =20 >>>> =20 >>>> --=20 >>>> Cheers, >>>> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> >>>> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org >>>> NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org >>>> =20 >>>> e^(i*pi)+1=3D0 >>>> =20 >>>> =20 >> > >