On 21 Dec 2023, at 13:22, Nuno Teixeira <edua...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On every current upgrade I update efi/freebsd/loader.efi (amd64) and > efi/boot/boota64 (aarch64) with new copies on /boot/loader.efi. > For safety reasons I always have a copy of last running loader by appending > "-old.efi" to loader or boota64 and use beinstall to get BEs if needed. > > Is that possible to link, e.g., /boot/efi/efi/freebsd/loader.efi -> > /boot/loader.efi ?
Symlinks do not work on FAT file systems, so I assume you mean a symlink placed in /boot (assuming that is UFS or ZFS), which points to /boot/efi/efi/freebsd? At the moment I think installworld would not write 'through' such a symlink. In fact, it makes a hard link from /boot/loader_lua.efi to /boot/loader.efi, unlinking any previous /boot/loader.efi. That said, it would be nice to have some sort of semi-official way of upgrading the real EFI loader through installworld. It would probably require some top-level Makefile magic. -Dimitry
