EFI booting from external USB pen drive

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Thu Jul 5 21:31:35 UTC 2018


On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>> FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32.
>>
>> We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as
>> well at https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI
>
> IIRC FreeBSD recently cnahged to FAT16 or 32 on these
> as the size got pushed up to be larger than what FAT12
> can access.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/stand/efi/boot1/generate-fat.sh?annotate=332561#l45

nope.


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