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authoremaste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2016-02-16 03:50:56 +0000
committeremaste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2016-02-16 03:50:56 +0000
commitfaf4c803e377bc419cf025be083fd5d8ddd6f3ef (patch)
tree165528417cbbaf76b73ec95ef9b092bef512eedf /share
parent744ea196e52f4821042acc2a9b289ee54aea5202 (diff)
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MFC r295497: Update uefi.8 for ZFS and multi device boot support
Approved by: re (gjb)
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/uefi.832
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/uefi.8 b/share/man/man8/uefi.8
index 8907ef3..8c1c979 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/uefi.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/uefi.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd February 14, 2016
+.Dd February 15, 2016
.Dt UEFI 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -83,9 +83,17 @@ passes the configuration to the next stage boot loader and does not
itself act on the contents of the file.
.It
.Pa boot1.efi
-locates the first partition with the type
-.Li freebsd-ufs ,
-and from it loads
+searches partitions of type
+.Li freebsd-ufs
+and
+.Li freebsd-zfs
+for
+.Pa loader.efi .
+The search begins with partitions on the device from which
+.Pa boot1.efi
+was loaded, and continues with other available partitions.
+.Pa boot1.efi
+then loads and executes
.Pa loader.efi .
.It
.Pa loader.efi
@@ -146,19 +154,3 @@ Foundation sponsored portions of the work.
EFI environment variables are not supported by
.Xr loader 8
or the kernel.
-.Pp
-.Pa boot1.efi
-loads
-.Pa loader.efi
-from the first FreeBSD-UFS file system it locates, even if it is on a
-different disk.
-.Pp
-.Pa boot1.efi
-cannot load
-.Pa loader.efi
-from a
-.Xr ZFS 8
-file system.
-As a result,
-.Nm
-does not support a typical root file system on ZFS configuration.
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