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

On Wed, Nov 6, 2024, 9:37 AM Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:

> 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 ;-)
>

It's harmless... Thanks for updating.

Warner

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> Patrick
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