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

Patrick M. Hausen hausen at punkt.de
Mon Nov 7 08:12:34 UTC 2016


Hi,

> Am 07.11.2016 um 09:04 schrieb Harry Schmalzbauer <freebsd at omnilan.de>:
>> 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

Care to elaborate? This is what we use in production - all
systems booting just fine ;-)

Thanks,
Patrick
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