Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:39:20 -0600
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 12:55 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net>
wrote:

> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32.
>
> We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as
> well at https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI
>
> I wonder where this “default” came from?
>

The original UEFI port... they didn't check the standard's recommendations.
It worked then, but experience has shown FAT12 doesn't work everywhere.

Warner

>
Received on Thu Jul 05 2018 - 16:39:32 UTC

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