bsdinstall no detecting existing EFI partition
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Apr 5 04:39:42 UTC 2016
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Martin Paredes wrote:
> El Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:26:19 +0100
> krad <kraduk at gmail.com> escribió:
>> you dont need 2x efi partitions just put the freebsd bootx64.efi in a
>> different directory on the efi so you get something like this
>>
>> efi/boot/bootx64.efi (windows one)
>> efi/freebsd/bootx64.efi
>>
>> you should be able to choose which os from the UEFI (BIOS to some)
>> boot menu, usually invoked by F10 during boot
>
> The option appear, even if I left only 1 EFI partition without the
> bootx64.efi, something that the UEFI from the laptop does by it self
>
>>
>> On 4 April 2016 at 07:29, Martin Paredes <mapsware at prodigy.net.mx>
>>>
>>> Where can I see the code that create the partiotions and populate
>>> the second efi partition
>>>
>
> I found some programs in
>
> /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/
>
> But autopart is a binary file
>
> /usr/libexec/bsdinstall/autopart: ELF 32-bit LSB executable
The FreeBSD EFI loader is
/boot/boot1.efi
The EFI partition can be mounted as msdosfs. Details are shown here:
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html#_booting_with_uefi
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