Bug 253611

Summary:

Boot loader screen graphics broken after update to 13.0 BETA2

Product:

Base System

Reporter:

Igor Osminin <osm.gosha>

Component:

bin

Assignee:

freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>

Status:

Closed Works As Intended

Severity:

Affects Only Me

CC:

ecyoung, tsoome

Priority:

---

Keywords:

loader

Version:

13.0-STABLE

Hardware:

amd64

OS:

Any

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Boot loader screen	none

Description Igor Osminin 2021-02-18 07:14:04 UTC

I upgraded from version 12.2 to 13.0 BETA2. No errors or warnings were noticed during the update. After that, broken pseudo graphics are displayed on the boot screen instead of images from /boot/images. Photo in the attachment

Comment 1 Igor Osminin 2021-02-18 08:51:54 UTC

Created attachment 222550 [details]
Boot loader screen

Comment 2 Yuri Pankov freebsd_committer

2021-02-18 09:46:29 UTC

If this is UEFI boot, you will need to manually update loader.efi in ESP.

Comment 3 Toomas Soome freebsd_committer

2021-02-18 09:54:34 UTC

(In reply to Igor from comment #0)

I only confirm what Yuri already wrote; this does happen because you have loader.efi installed in Efi System Partition (ESP), and the upgrade process does not update it.

To fix, you need to use mount -t msdosfs, find from mounted tree the *.efi binary, and update it from /boot/loader.efi. It may be <mntpoint>/efi/boot/bootx64.efi or <mountpoint>/efi/freebsd/loader.efi

Other way is to check output from efibootmgr -v, and then update the file.

Comment 4 Igor Osminin 2021-02-18 10:32:41 UTC

Thank you, I'll try!

Comment 5 Carter 2021-05-24 00:40:52 UTC

Can also confirm this is needed for 13.0-RELEASE. A note in the upgrade instructions at https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/installation/ would be a nice heads up, as I missed this too for about a month