Re: following -current on rpi4 with zfs-on-root

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 8:31 PM void <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In /usr/src/UPDATING, there's this concerning
> zroot booting after buildworld kernel cycle:
>
> +++++
> 2.) update the ZFS boot block on your boot drive
>
>     The following example updates the ZFS boot block on the
>     freebsd-boot partition of a GPT partitioned drive ada0:
>     "gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i $N ada0"
>     The value $N will typically be 1 (if booting from BIOS) or 2 (if
>     booting from EFI).
>

ignore everything after 'or'.. it's bogus. Gptzfsboot is unused outside of
BIOS booting on x86. In this case BIOS is irrelevant to EFI.

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>
> BIOS in a rpi4 context I read as u-boot. I thought it hands the boot
> process
> over to bootaa64.efi, which I thought was efi. Is this correct?
> Its initial boot screen shows u-boot. Is this bios or efi?
>

It's EFI and you need to update the file in the ESP (MSDOS).

Warner

TIA,
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