EFI ZFS loader success story

[Eric McCorkle]

Excellent!  Thanks for testing it.

On 08/12/2015 08:47 AM, Ganael Laplanche wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:39:40 AM Ganael Laplanche wrote:
> 
>> Using the patch from this post :
>>
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-June/047823.html
>>
>> against -CURRENT (r286279), I've been able to boot my ZFS-root system,
>> yeah!
> 
> As a followup to :
> 
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-April/047608.html
> 
>> Also, if someone with a UFS system could test that the modularization didn't
>> break UFS functionality, that'd be helpful.
> 
> I would like to add I've successfully booted a UFS root too (in UEFI mode) 
> using your patch, with both loaders (either directly from loader.efi or using 
> boot1.efi + loader.efi). Here is how.
> 
> First, create partitions this way :
> 
> # gpart create -s gpt ada0
> # gpart add -s 800K -t efi ada0
> # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada0
> 
> Then, install FreeBSD within the freebsd-ufs partition.
> 
> You can then choose between two ways of booting your system :
> 
> (let's consider the efi partition is mounted under /tmp/efi and the root FS 
> under /mnt)
> 
> 1) Using loader.efi :
> ---------------------
> 
> # cp loader.efi /tmp/efi/efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi
> 
> # cat > /tmp/efi/boot/loader.rc << EOF
> unload
> set currdev=part1:
> load boot/kernel/kernel
> autoboot
> EOF
> 
> 2) Using boot1.efi + loader.efi :
> ---------------------------------
> 
> # cp boot1.efi /tmp/efi/efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi
> # cp loader.efi /mnt/boot/
> 
> Cleanup previous test :
> # rm /tmp/efi/boot/loader.rc
> # rmdir /tmp/efi/boot
> 
> Also, in both cases, do not forget to modify the fstab within /mnt/etc to 
> mount the root fs.
> 
> Regards,
> 

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