Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 20:17:13 -0600
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd-rwg_at_pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.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/
> generate-fat.sh?annotate=332561#l45
> >
> > nope.
>
> That is not the code we build release images with,
> that is Warners tests for the boot loader.
>

No, that's the actual code that generates boot1.efiffat.

Warner
Received on Fri Jul 06 2018 - 00:17:15 UTC

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