Hello Dimitry, For a moment I forgot that efiboot is a fat system... I am inspired on what installworld does to kernel and kernel.old. I was thinking in something like it but with efi boot, something automatic.
Thanks! Dimitry Andric <d...@freebsd.org> escreveu no dia quinta, 21/12/2023 à(s) 12:48: > On 21 Dec 2023, at 13:22, Nuno Teixeira <edua...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On every current upgrade I update efi/freebsd/loader.efi (amd64) and > efi/boot/boota64 (aarch64) with new copies on /boot/loader.efi. > > For safety reasons I always have a copy of last running loader by > appending "-old.efi" to loader or boota64 and use beinstall to get BEs if > needed. > > > > Is that possible to link, e.g., /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi -> > /boot/loader.efi ? > > Symlinks do not work on FAT file systems, so I assume you mean a symlink > placed in /boot (assuming that is UFS or ZFS), which points to > /boot/efi/efi/freebsd? > > At the moment I think installworld would not write 'through' such a > symlink. In fact, it makes a hard link from /boot/loader_lua.efi to > /boot/loader.efi, unlinking any previous /boot/loader.efi. > > That said, it would be nice to have some sort of semi-official way of > upgrading the real EFI loader through installworld. It would probably > require some top-level Makefile magic. > > -Dimitry > > -- Nuno Teixeira FreeBSD Committer (ports)
