Differential D27002

freebsd-boot is not always the first partition
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Authored by cperciva on Oct 29 2020, 4:51 AM.

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rS367195: Attempt to defuse a land mine before anyone else steps on it: The

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Attempt to defuse a land mine before anyone else steps on it.

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cperciva requested review of this revision.Oct 29 2020, 4:51 AM

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If booting from EFI, updating gptzfsboot won't do anything. We likely need additional documentation on actually updating the contents of the ESP as well.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 29 2020, 1:49 PM

In D27002#602351, @allanjude wrote:

If booting from EFI, updating gptzfsboot won't do anything. We likely need additional documentation on actually updating the contents of the ESP as well.

Should I change this to say "If booting from BIOS..." rather than specifying how to perform an unnecessary update of the (unused?) freebsd-boot partition for UEFI users?

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