Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:55:19 -0600
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb <
bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:

> On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> IIRC FreeBSD recently cnahged to FAT16 or 32 on these
>> as the size got pushed up to be larger than what FAT12
>> can access.
>>
>
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/stand/efi/boot1/generat
> e-fat.sh?annotate=332561#l45
>
> nope.
>

Yea, this should die a firey death in a fire, burned with flames, and the
ashes stirred into a paste that's tossed overboard into the ocean :)

But before that glorious day, I have a few last niggles to fix in
loader.efi.

Warner
Received on Thu Jul 05 2018 - 19:55:21 UTC

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