About /boot being a symlink to /efi/boot and ZFS

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:24:57AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> 12.   Boot FreeBSD. Check that the loader version is 2.1. If not,
>>      you're not using the right loader. If the loader version
>>      is right but the loader cannot find a kernel, run 'lsdev'
>>      in the loader to list all partitions and try them until
>>      you find the right one. Note that part0: can be expected
>>      to be the EFI system partition, so you that only if you
>>      can't find a kernel on any other partitons. Remember to
>>      update the EFI boot manager accordingly.
> 
> part1: works for me.
> 
> I'm still confused by having 2 loader.efi:
> 
> # ls -al /efi/FreeBSD/loader.efi
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  611689 Jan 27 22:12 /efi/FreeBSD/loader.efi
> # ls -al /boot/loader.efi
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  611689 Jan 27 22:08 /boot/loader.efi
> #
> 
> What I understood from your post is that /efi is only used for loader.efi,
> all boot files are under /boot, correct?

Yes.

> So can I delete /boot/loader.efi?

Don't worry about it. On the next installworld you'll have
it back anyway :-)

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Marcel Moolenaar
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