The Psychotic Network Ferret @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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FYI, if you forget how to update your bootloader, remember that your search results will be flooded with out of date posts and posts.

This thread is full of useful information:

forums.freebsd.org/threads/upd

Just about everything else that came up in top search results was anti-helpful.

This specifically helped me out, after I used an out of date method that blew my bootloader away:

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newfs_msdos -F16 /dev/nvd1p1
mount -t msdosfs /dev/nvd1p1 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/efi/boot
cp /boot/loader.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
umount /mnt
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It's one of those things that I don't do often enough for it to become habit.

Update of the bootcodes for a GPT scheme (x64 architecture)

This how-to is about the update of the bootcodes on FreeBSD as it's little to no documented. It only covers the GPT scheme and is intended for people with little knowledge of FreeBSD. Edit: I wrote a script that gives the right commands to type after inspecting your system and can possibly...

forums.freebsd.org · The FreeBSD Forums

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