UEFI: How to go about updating the ESP with loader.efi during installworld
Allan Jude
allanjude at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 4 21:25:32 UTC 2018
On 2018-11-04 16:20, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> I'm currently working on creating and updating the ESP (EFI System Partition)
> for UEFI booting during installation and installworld.
>
> During installation, with my changes it gets mounted on /boot/efi and loader.efi
> copied into /boot/efi/EFI/FreeBSD and /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT. An entry gets added to
> /etc/fstab as noauto.
>
> The issue comes during installworld, where we'll need to update the loader,
> and I'm not sure how we should handle that.
> If NO_ROOT isn't defined, do we just "mount /boot/efi", overwrite the files then
> unmount it? What should we do if NO_ROOT _is_ defined?
>
Previous to now, installworld has not updated the boot blocks. You've
had to manually run 'gpart bootcode' to change the boot blocks.
However, those boot blocks mostly just loaded /boot/loader, which was
updated by installworld.
So I can see how this is not directly analogous.
I wouldn't depend on the /etc/fstab entry existing. I am not sure I want
installworld randomly fobbing around in my EFI partition. Especially if,
for example, my EFI/BOOT is not FreeBSD, but rEFInd or something.
--
Allan Jude
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