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Date:      Thu, 9 Jul 2020 14:50:46 +0100
From:      Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 12.1p7 no longer boots after doing zpool upgrade -a
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On 09/07/2020 14:36, Kyle Evans wrote:
> We haven't quite standardized on a good process yet, IMO, but for
> right now the correct process is to just mount the ESP and replace
> loader.efi with your system's updated /boot/loader.efi. At some point
> we'll standardize a mountpoint for the ESP and mount it by default as
> is done on at least some other OS.

Ok, that makes sense. Still curious as to why the other method might 
fail though - as Karl points out in the other email, its just doing a 
direct copy of the image file, so if the iamge is built correct then I 
am surprised it wont work under all circumstances.

But thanks for the info - will file this away for when I have to install 
an EFI machine. cheers,

-pete.



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