Re: 13.4-p2 "Loader needs to be updated"

On 6 Nov 2024, at 17:04, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:
> 
> my newly installed 13.4 systems with UEFI boot show
> 
> "Loader needs to be updated" in the beastie menu.
> 
> root@ah003:~ # ll /boot/loader
> -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  462848 Sep 13 10:05 /boot/loader*
> root@ah003:~ # freebsd-version
> 13.4-RELEASE-p2
> 
> I already copied /boot/loader to /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi and
> /mnt/efi/freebsd/loader.efi like I always do after major OS and/or
> zpool upgrades.
> 
> Does not change the message.

Shouldn't you copy /boot/loader.efi instead? /boot/loader is an older binary, not suitable for UEFI.

-Dimitry