Currently, the installer uses pre-created 800KB FAT12 filesystems that
it dd's onto the ESP partition.
This changeset improves that by having the installer generate a FAT32
filesystem directly onto the ESP using newfs_msdos and then copying
loader.efi into /EFI/freebsd.
For live installs it then runs efibootmgr to add a FreeBSD boot entry
in the BIOS.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17947
This makes it easier to identify the individual partition types and
facilitates comparisons across architectures.
Reviewed by: gjb
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
There's not much practical difference as far as install media is
concerned but newfs creates UFSv2 by default and it is sensible to use
the contemporary UFS version.
I also intend to change makefs to create UFSv2 by default (to match
newfs) so we'll want make-memstick.sh to be explicit, rather than
relying on the host tool's default.
Reviewed by: andrew, gjb, jhibbits
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12231
This Makefile relies on Makefile.fat providing the correct value for
BOOT1_MAXSIZE and BOOT1_OFFSET. Since BOOT1_OFFSET had no default value
here the build would already fail if Makefile.fat did not provide
correct values.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Also remove the now-redundant error handling that was only for makefs.
This script was run on an older FreeBSD host that lacked efi-on-mbr
support in makefs. A warning was emitted on the console (from makefs)
but the script continued running and exited with 0.
Reviewed by: gjb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
the root filesystem read-write. This causes problems booting
the memstick installation medium from write-protected USB flash
drives.
Submitted by: A.J. Kehoe IV [1], Oliver Jones [2]
PR: 187161 [1], 205886 [2]
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
aarch64 memory stick images.
Although arm64 does not yet have USB support, the memstick
image should be bootable with certain virtualization tools,
such as qemu.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
