On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:19 PM Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:17 PM Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:55, Stefan Bethke <s...@lassitu.de> wrote:
>> [...]
>> > The UEFI man page has a good explanation of which files are involved in
>> booting:
>> >
>> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uefi&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports
>> >
>> > I mounted the ESP and copied /boot/boot1.efi to
>> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI. Surprisingly, the new boot1.efi is much
>> smaller than what I had before (according to the timestamp from November),
>> but using that, booting seems to be restored.
>> >
>> > # grep efi /etc/fstab
>> > /dev/ada0p2             /boot/efi       msdos   rw,noauto       0
>>  0
>> > # mount /boot/efi
>> > # ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
>> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bak/BOOTX64.EFI
>> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   81920 Jan 11 18:43
>> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI*
>> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  410112 Nov 25 16:27
>> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/bak/BOOTX64.EFI*
>>
>> While the uefi(8) man page suggests that boot1.efi should be used,
>> loader.efi can also substituted. I believe the release images use
>> loader.efi instead of boot1.efi, as it's slightly more efficient.
>>
>
> We should change that... boot1.efi has transitioned to 'legacy
> applications only' and we should recommend loader.efi only.
>

I hit send too soon, -current already has removed boot1.efi...

Warner
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