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

From: Patrick M. Hausen <hausen_at_punkt.de>
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:36:39 UTC
Hi Dimitry,

> Am 06.11.2024 um 17:32 schrieb Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>:
> 
> On 6 Nov 2024, at 17:12, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 06.11.2024 um 17:10 schrieb Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>:
>>> Shouldn't you copy /boot/loader.efi instead? /boot/loader is an older binary, not suitable for UEFI.
>> 
>> Excuse me - that is what I did, otherwise the server would be quite dead by now.
>> 
>> Typo in my email, no typo in the actual execution.
>> 
>> -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  868352 Sep 13 10:05 /boot/loader.efi*
> 
> Yeah sorry, I was not sure if it was a typo or not. :)
> 
> Anyway, this appears to be a reported bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282001,
> but there was no EN for it. The draft schedule for 13.5 points to next year, so you will either have to be patient,
> or patch a lua file, it seems.

Thanks. As long as it is harmless and will not render my server unbootable all is well.

I rarely see the loader screen, anyway. I was just debugging flaky boot with a new
hardware generation at Hetzner and then a warning like this did not improve my
confidence ;-)

Kind regards,
Patrick
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