Re: ZFS feature compatibility?

From: mike tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:56:07 -0500
On 1/25/2021 4:51 PM, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 04:17:18PM -0500, mike tancsa wrote:
>> Is there a way to check from the bin if its the right version ? strings
>> of the file doesnt seem to show anything useful.  I wonder if its the
>> UEFI boot that got missed ?  Just
>>
>> gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1ada8
>> gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1.efifat -i 1ada9
>>
>> I take it ?
>   I don't think that is the way to update UEFI anymore (although last time I
> looked it was still documented that way in one place).
>
>   For my last bootcode (which had UEFI & BIOS) update, I basically did this:
>
> 	gpart show nvd0
> 	        =>       40  976773088  nvd0  GPT  (466G)
> 	                 40     409600     1  efi  (200M)
> 	             409640       1024     2  freebsd-boot  (512K)
> 	             410664        984        - free -  (492K)
> 	             411648   16777216     3  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
> 	           17188864  959584256     4  freebsd-zfs  (458G)
> 	          976773120          8        - free -  (4.0K)
>
> 	gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 2 nvd0
> 		partcode written to nvd0p2
> 		bootcode written to nvd0
>
> 	mount -vt msdosfs /dev/nvd0p1 /mnt
> 	        /dev/nvd0p1 on /mnt (msdosfs, local, writes: sync 1 async 0, reads: sync 13 async 0, fsid 5c00000032000000)
> 	install -p -m755 /boot/loader.efi /mnt/efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi
> 	umount -v /mnt
> 		/dev/nvd0p1: unmount from /mnt

Thanks, I am new to the EFI world.  Does the name now have to be
BOOTx64.efi ?

root_at_zoo2:/boot # ls -l /mnt/EFI/freebsd/
total 824
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  843776 Nov 21 10:50 loader.efi
root_at_zoo2:/boot #

    ---Mike


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