Re: FreeBSD 14.1 and UEFI boot ignores bootme flag

> On 13 Aug 2024, at 10:42, Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
> You can choose which partition/pool to boot using boot1.efi with
> whichever of latest 2 patches at Bug 207940 [1] applied.
> 
> As boot1.efi would be dropped in the future, I want the same kind of
> functionality on loader.efi, too.

same here, but it seems to be stuck in the past :-)

> 
> And related PR found: Bug201788 [2]
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207940
> 
> [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201788
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 00:02:53 -0700
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>