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.Dd February 26, 2015
.Dt UEFI 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm UEFI
.Nd Unified Extensible Firmware Interface bootstrapping procedures
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface provides boot- and run-time services
to operating systems.
.Nm
is a replacement for the legacy BIOS on the i386 and amd64 CPU architectures,
and is also used on arm64 and ia64.
.Pp
The
.Nm
boot process loads system bootstrap code located in an EFI System Partition
(ESP).
The ESP is a GPT or MBR partition with a specific identifier that contains an
.Xr msdosfs 5
FAT file system with a specified file hierarchy.
.Bl -column -offset indent ".Sy Partition Scheme" ".Sy ESP Identifier"
.It Sy "Partition Scheme" Ta Sy "ESP Identifier"
.It GPT Ta C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
.It MBR Ta 0xEF
.El
.Pp
The
.Nm
boot process proceeds as follows:
.Bl -enum -offset indent -compact
.It
.Nm
firmware runs at power up and searches for an OS loader in the EFI system
partition.
The path to the loader may be set by an EFI environment variable.
If not set, the default is
.Pa /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI .
The default
.Nm
boot configuration for
.Fx
installs
.Pa boot1.efi
as
.Pa /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI .
.It
.Pa boot1.efi
locates the first partition with the type
.Li freebsd-ufs ,
and from it loads
.Pa loader.efi .
.It
.Pa loader.efi
loads and boots the kernel, as described in
.Xr loader 8 .
.El
.Pp
The
.Xr vt 4
system console is automatically selected when booting via
.Nm .
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /boot/loader -compact
.It Pa /boot/boot1.efi
First stage
.Nm
bootstrap
.It Pa /boot/boot1.efifat
.Xr msdosfs 5
FAT file system image containing
.Pa boot1.efi
for use by
.Xr bsdinstall 8
and the
.Ar bootcode
argument to
.Xr gpart 8 .
.It Pa /boot/loader.efi
Final stage bootstrap
.It Pa /boot/kernel/kernel
default kernel
.It Pa /boot/kernel.old/kernel
typical non-default kernel (optional)
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr vt 4 ,
.Xr msdosfs 5 ,
.Xr boot 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr uefisign 8
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
boot support first appeared in
.Fx 10.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.Nm
boot support was developed by
.An Benno Rice Aq Mt benno@FreeBSD.org ,
.An Ed Maste Aq Mt emaste@FreeBSD.org ,
and
.An Nathan Whitehorn Aq Mt nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org .
The
.Fx
Foundation sponsored portions of the work.
.Sh CAVEATS
EFI environment variables are not supported by
.Xr loader 8
or the kernel.
.Pp
.Pa boot1.efi
loads
.Pa loader.efi
from the first FreeBSD-UFS file system it locates, even if it is on a
different disk.
.Pp
.Pa boot1.efi
cannot load
.Pa loader.efi
from a
.Xr ZFS 8
file system.
As a result,
.Nm
does not support a typical root file system on ZFS configuration.