FreeBSD arm64 on EC2 requires boot1.efifat

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 3/15/21 2:58 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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...

And the installer (and VM images) do this internally now.
-Nathan

>> Thanks!
>>
>> – M
>>
>> --
>>
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>>
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