boot1.efi
—
UEFI chain loader
boot1.efi
has been deprecated and will be removed from a
future release.
loader.efi(8)
handles all its former use cases with more flexibility.
On UEFI systems, boot1.efi
loads
/boot/loader.efi from the default root file system
and transfers execution there.
Before looking for the boot device, boot1.efi
does the
following initialization
- Sets up the console using the default UEFI console routines.
- Discovers all possible block devices on the system.
- Initializes all file system modules to read files from those devices
boot1.efi
uses the following sequence to determine the
root file system for booting:
- If ZFS is configured,
boot1.efi
will search the
for zpools that are bootable, preferring the zpool on the boot device over
the others.
- If UFS is configured,
boot1.efi
will search all
UFS partitions for a bootable partition. It will prefer the lowest
numbered bootable partition on the boot device over all other choices. It
will fall back to partitions on other devices if none are found.
A partition is considered bootable if it can load
/boot/loader.efi from it. Command line arguments to
the next boot stage are read from the first existing file of
/boot.config or /boot/config
in that order.
- The order in which file systems are tried is undefined.
- No encryption support is available.
- There's no way to interrupt the boot process to select booting from some
other location.
- When configuring a serial console for FreeBSD, but not for UEFI, no output
will show up on the serial console from boot1.efi.
- There's no support for marking partitions as the preferred one.
- There's no support for boot-once functionality.