Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:54:12 -0600 From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding a new efi-update-loader script: need help understanding Makefile.inc1 for "make installworld" Message-ID: <49d1a599-b479-edb1-a88f-48cae19b55af@bluestop.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrHrHcgYnY4nCHQSr5Yxd_7605NzvWBWDtC7hJ-fYcuqg@mail.gmail.com> References: <642fed43-0535-9ae3-6f01-a943650cd511@bluestop.org> <20190324090103.GO1923@kib.kiev.ua> <e6695237-6a22-3ff0-b113-9efeee05a51a@bluestop.org> <CANCZdfq1vb2-R-R4AZyoqi_940GCooMuhXyjCgSkHSusic5p_w@mail.gmail.com> <5cda4bb9-c10e-2b44-65db-5a9f29f498d8@bluestop.org> <CEADFA63-9086-4EC6-A204-2A49254741B0@gmail.com> <CANCZdfrHrHcgYnY4nCHQSr5Yxd_7605NzvWBWDtC7hJ-fYcuqg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 3/24/19 6:51 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019, 6:32 PM Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com
> <mailto:yaneurabeya@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> I was wondering about builds from scratch, as well—images
> completely lacking boot blocks like Jenkins builds.
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> You wouldn't run installloader on those. It's also a reason I don't
> want to guess too much...
The script as it is looks for partitions of type 'efi' which have a
FreeBSD \efi\boot\boot${arch}.efi or \efi\freebsd\loader.efi, and if
they exist it'll update them - the assumption being that booting FreeBSD
already works, since it's been installed/configured via the installer or
some other method.
--
Rebecca Cran
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