Re: "Loader needs to be updated" (azure guest context)

On 2024-12-30, void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> Latest upgrade from 13.3-p6 to 13.4-p1 shows "loader needs to be updated" 
> in the beastie menu in the console now. This is new.

I am seeing this message on all my 13.4 systems (all upgraded from source
via "make installworld" & friends). So far it didn't appear to induce
any malfunctions, so I decided to ignore it (systems aren't supposed
to be rebooted often).

Recently I've seen this message, and also another message shown before
the loader appears, only for a fraction of a second, apparently coming
from the EFI stuff, on my laptop.
And since I was sitting on the train with nothing to do, I had a look
into the efi filesystem, and found the loader there being from 2022.
The laptop does boot via EFI, only - and the efi filesystem could not
be updated via "make installworld" (even if it would try, which it
doesn't), because it is normally not mounted.

So I grabbed the according loader executable from /boot, which
apparently is up-to-date, and copied it into the efi filesystem. 
It didn't help anything.

> This system is *not* root-on-zfs. There is zfs, but it's data on 
> a non-boot virtual disk.

Same here.

> is the warning safe to ignore in this context?

I'm doing so, with no issues.

Cheerio,
PMc