Created attachment 174717 [details] Patch to increase boot1.efifat size This patch is a follow-up to PR 212604. Now that ESP size has been enlarged to 200m, find attached a patch the enables the creation of a 200m boot1.efifat image. - EFI partition is now FAT32 (as found on Linux distributions) and uses 4 sectors per cluster (arbitrary value to overcome the "too few clusters for FAT32" error reported by newfs_msdos) - zfsboot script now uses dd to write partition data as gpart bootcode has a (arbitrary) hardcoded limit of 1MB files - Do not forget to regenerate sys/boot/efi/boot1/fat*.tmpl.bz2.uu and sys/boot/efi/boot1/Makefile.fat files using sys/boot/efi/boot1/generate-fat.sh ! - Successfully tested on a Supermicro X9SRI-F motherboard (patch *NOT* tested on other platforms: arm, arm64, i386) - We will probably have to remove boot1.efifat from media where it is useless and stored uncompressed (e.g. CD ISOs) as adding 200 MB is unacceptable there Note: this patch includes ESP size increase patch from: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212604
What we really need to do is have the installer start creating the FAT ESP filesystem at install time (and copying boot1.efi in), rather than using this pre-created FAT filesystem image.
Hi Ed, Yes, I've seen the comments in r323554. I totally agree with that direction, so I'll close that PR. Thanks :)
I have just installed 11.1-RELEASE and the resulting EFI partition is still too small. No room to place useful utilities, like the rEFInd Boot Manager. Why is this bug marked as closed?
(In reply to vas from comment #3) The PR was filed against CURRENT, not STABLE. Anyway, the fix has already been merged to stable/11 too.
(In reply to Eugene Grosbein from comment #4) Can I expect the fix in 11.2-RELEASE?
(In reply to vas from comment #5) Yes. You should also test if it's really working using recent 11.1-STABLE snapshot image: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/?C=M&O=D
Note that the FAT filesystem image is still relatively small, but the EFI system partition is larger. You would need to newfs_msdos the partition and copy the bootloader bits back into the new filesystem to have more space.
(In reply to Ed Maste from comment #7) > Note that the FAT filesystem image is still relatively small, but the EFI system partition is larger. Thanks, that's a great workaround. The EFI partition is 200M, more than enough once reformatted.