Solved bootloader issue on FreeBSD 15.0 -> 15.1 upgrade

[Erichans]

In my view that is certainly your perogative. Note that the "show-me" mode only prints the situation as sysutils/loaders-update sees it. "simply following the man page" isn't alway that straight forward to many as it may seem to you. Also, IIRC the man pages do not document explicitly that you are well advised to update your boot loaders for all relevant drives of which your system may boot; important for a ZFS mirror.

[..] install a third-party script [...[

This utility from ports may turn out to be not all that different than others that have started/initiated its development cycles out of the need or wishes from the FreeBSD community and the decision from someone, in this case Emrion with sysutils/loaders-update, to start with delivering an answering to this need (you can search these forums if you like). A clear example of a FreeBSD base-install utility that started its development cylcles in ports is vermaden 's beadm(8) (still maintained) which was the basis of bectl(8) in base*. Where would ZFS users be without either of them?

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* bectl(8):

bectl and this manual page were derived from beadm(8).

 

[Emrion]

I prefer to read and follow the instructions in the loader.efi man page rather than install a third-party script which may or may not do what needs doing and which I would have to verify against the man page, all of which provides no net gain over simply following the man page in the first place.

Everybody has its own preferences, that's fine.

Nevertheless, it costs nothing to see what my script has to say. An error is always possible, typing commands or by a slight misunderstanding of the subject.