Re: [PATCH] BIOS boot vs EFI system partition mountpoint

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:54:42 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.i386
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> On Aug 20, 2022, at 12:28 PM, Brian Buhrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> hello.  I fully agree with Robert, and for the same reason.  Updating boot blocks
> unnecessarily is always a dicey proposition,especially when updating machines that are far away
> from knowledgable hands.

The EFI boot loader is a different beast — the notion of “boot blocks” doesn’t even really exist in the EFI environment.  The boot loader is just a program, like any other EFI program, that just happens to be loaded by EFI when the operating system is booted.  There’s no stuffing the right thing into a special sector on the disk.  It’s entirely reasonable to expect to upgrade the boot loader when upgrading the operating system.

-- thorpej