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UEFI(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual UEFI(8) NAME UEFI -- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface bootstrapping procedures DESCRIPTION The UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface provides boot- and run- time services to operating systems. UEFI is a replacement for the legacy BIOS on the i386 and amd64 CPU architectures, and is also used on arm, arm64 and ia64. The UEFI specification is the successor to the Extensible Firmware Inter- face (EFI) specification. The terms are often used interchangeably. The UEFI boot process loads system bootstrap code located in an EFI Sys- tem Partition (ESP). The ESP is a GPT or MBR partition with a specific identifier that contains an msdosfs(5) FAT file system with a specified file hierarchy. Partition Scheme ESP Identifier GPT C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B MBR 0xEF The UEFI boot process proceeds as follows: 1. UEFI firmware runs at power up and searches for an OS loader in the EFI system partition. The path to the loader may be set by an EFI environment variable. If not set, an architec- ture-specific default is used. Architecture Default Path amd64 /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI arm64 /EFI/BOOT/BOOTAA64.EFI The default UEFI boot configuration for FreeBSD installs boot1.efi in the default path. 2. boot1.efi reads boot configuration from /boot.config or /boot/config. Unlike other first-stage boot loaders, boot1.efi passes the configuration to the next stage boot loader and does not itself act on the contents of the file. 3. boot1.efi searches partitions of type freebsd-ufs and freebsd-zfs for loader.efi. The search begins with partitions on the device from which boot1.efi was loaded, and continues with other available partitions. If both freebsd-ufs and freebsd-zfs partitions exist on the same device the freebsd-zfs partition is preferred. boot1.efi then loads and executes loader.efi. 4. loader.efi loads and boots the kernel, as described in loader(8). The vt(4) system console is automatically selected when booting via UEFI. FILES /boot/boot1.efi First stage UEFI bootstrap /boot/boot1.efifat msdosfs(5) FAT file system image containing boot1.efi for use by bsdinstall(8) and the bootcode argument to gpart(8). /boot/loader.efi Final stage bootstrap /boot/kernel/kernel default kernel /boot/kernel.old/kernel typical non-default kernel (optional) SEE ALSO vt(4), boot.config(5), msdosfs(5), boot(8), efibootmgr(8), efidp(8), efivar(8), gpart(8), uefisign(8) HISTORY EFI boot support for the ia64 architecture first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0. UEFI boot support for amd64 first appeared in FreeBSD 10.1 and for arm64 in FreeBSD 11.0. CAVEATS EFI environment variables are not supported by loader(8) or the kernel. FreeBSD 13.0 January 25, 2018 FreeBSD 13.0
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