FreeBSD arm64 on EC2 requires boot1.efifat

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:30 PM Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com>
wrote:

> For both 12-STABLE and 13-RC2 I have been successful in creating working
> instances in AWS EC2 only with boot1.efifat – which does not appear to be
> included in base.txz
>

No. It's not needed. It has been retired.


> If anyone has succeeded with boot1.efi, I stand ready to be enlightened.
>

The ESP is just a FAT filesystem.

newfs_msdos /dev/XX
mount -t msdos /dev/XX /mnt
mkdir /mnt/efi/boot
cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi

I've added this to the release notes recently...


> Thanks!
>
> – M
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