Bug 277469

Summary:	Installer incorrectly setting up UEFI boot manager
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Alex Bylund <variousnonsense>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	Keywords:	install
Priority:	---
Version:	14.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any

Description Alex Bylund 2024-03-04 10:32:08 UTC

This is a consumer bug report.

On a new install, setting up with one UFS partition with swap and the rest unparitioned, the OS will fail to boot.

In the BIOS boot manager it will list "FreeBSD" and "UEFI OS" - if installed fully partitioned it only lists "UEFI OS" and will successfully boot.

Comment 1 Alex Bylund 2024-03-04 14:54:49 UTC

This is with Intel RST, and a 512gb nvme and a 2tb ssd. It might just be something to do with multiple drives.

Comment 2 Alex Bylund 2024-03-08 23:02:25 UTC

At the moment RST should be disabled to avoid a performance decrease. The installer code shows if there are more than 1 disk it will make a prompt, which did not happen. The impression I get is that this will "fix itself" once more work has been done with RST.

Workarounds could be disabling RST, disable one of the drives during install, or manually writing the boot manager/loader.