uefi.8: mention boot1.efi

[kevlo]

Summary

Mention boot1.efi since it is an image of 800KB FAT filesystem stored as
/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI and it's capable of boot FreeBSD.

[ygy]

share/man/man8/uefi.8

127

Would it be better to rephrase

and the bootcode argument to gpart

to ->

and gpart bootcode argument / and the bootcode argument of gpart

?

129

For consistency, please remove the "." in the list.

[ygy]

share/man/man8/uefi.8

27

This should be "December 27"

[bcran]

/boot/boot1.efifat is the 800 KB filesystem image. /boot/boot1.efi is the EFI bootloader application.

[bcran]

Also, /boot/boot1.efifat is no longer included in -CURRENT.

[imp]

Also, boot1.efi is obsolete. We retain it only for special needs users: those with the bogus tiny ESP partitions and some really weird edge cases that loader.efi doesn't work for.

[kevlo]

In D27782#621399, @imp wrote:

Also, boot1.efi is obsolete. We retain it only for special needs users: those with the bogus tiny ESP partitions and some really weird edge cases that loader.efi doesn't work for.

I have Ubuntu 20.10 and FreeBSD -current installed on my thinkpad laptop.
Linux's Grub2 is unable to boot FreeBSD directly from UEFI, I have to copy
the FreeBSD UEFI loader (/boot/boot.efi) into EFI partition.

[imp]

In D27782#621556, @kevlo wrote:

In D27782#621399, @imp wrote:

Also, boot1.efi is obsolete. We retain it only for special needs users: those with the bogus tiny ESP partitions and some really weird edge cases that loader.efi doesn't work for.

I have Ubuntu 20.10 and FreeBSD -current installed on my thinkpad laptop.
Linux's Grub2 is unable to boot FreeBSD directly from UEFI, I have to copy
the FreeBSD UEFI loader (/boot/boot.efi) into EFI partition.

You should copy loader.efi instead of boot1.efi since boot1 use is deprecated is what I meant. We should teach grub about UFS and maybe ZFS...

share/man/man8/uefi.8

127

Neither of these things are true. Bsdinstall has been updated, and gpart bootcode isn't used with EFI because these things aren't boot blocks but a program that needs to be installed in a special place

[kevlo]

In D27782#621560, @imp wrote:

In D27782#621556, @kevlo wrote:

In D27782#621399, @imp wrote:

Also, boot1.efi is obsolete. We retain it only for special needs users: those with the bogus tiny ESP partitions and some really weird edge cases that loader.efi doesn't work for.

I have Ubuntu 20.10 and FreeBSD -current installed on my thinkpad laptop.
Linux's Grub2 is unable to boot FreeBSD directly from UEFI, I have to copy
the FreeBSD UEFI loader (/boot/boot.efi) into EFI partition.

You should copy loader.efi instead of boot1.efi since boot1 use is deprecated is what I meant. We should teach grub about UFS and maybe ZFS...

I did try copying loader.efi into efi partition, but it didn't work.