boot1.efifat's FAT12 volume label prevents booting (some systems)

Harry Schmalzbauer freebsd at omnilan.de
Mon Nov 7 08:04:53 UTC 2016


Bezüglich Patrick M. Hausen's Nachricht vom 07.11.2016 08:10 (localtime):
> Hi, all,
> 
>> Am 06.11.2016 um 18:14 schrieb Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org>:
>>
>> Please do, so it is not forgotten.  It is relatively easy to change the
>> volume label, by editing sys/boot/efi/boot1/generate-fat.sh, and then
>> regenerating the FAT templates.
> 
> Why use the pre-generated image at all when you can easily

It's what bsdinstall seems to do, which left the system unbootable, not
what I do.


> create the EFI boot volume like this?
> 
> gpart add -t efi -l efi -a 512k -s 512k <device>
> newfs_msdos /dev/gpt/efi
> mount_msdosfs /dev/gpt/efi /mnt
> mkdir -p /mnt/efi/boot
> cp /boot/boot1.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi

You are missing startup.nsh...
See
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214282https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214282

-Harry


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