Bug 234321 - uefi(8): incorrect argument to gpart bootcode
Summary: uefi(8): incorrect argument to gpart bootcode
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Guangyuan Yang
URL:
Keywords: patch, uefi
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-12-24 01:19 UTC by Kevin Zheng
Modified: 2020-12-27 13:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Patch (326 bytes, patch)
2018-12-24 01:19 UTC, Kevin Zheng
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Description Kevin Zheng 2018-12-24 01:19:12 UTC
Created attachment 200419 [details]
Patch

Per the attached patch, loader1.efifat should be used with gpart's partcode argument, not the bootcode argument as the man page suggests.

This is relevant for all EFI-capable STABLE but not CURRENT, because CURRENT recently axed boot1.efifat.
Comment 1 Kevin Zheng 2019-07-03 17:53:59 UTC
Any update on this patch?
Comment 2 Guangyuan Yang freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-12-27 13:22:22 UTC
This issue should have been closed by https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/share/man/man8/uefi.8?id=db8b56134506840832bec2d1ce07b9e00d4d6d71.