EFI partition too small?

[rainer_d]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade a system that was installed as FreeBSD 11 or so to 14.
It's a VMWare VM installed with EFI instead of BIOS.

I recently found that you need to update /boot/efi for such a system to continue booting.

However, that partition currently isn't even 800k in size.

loader.efi is bigger than that and consequently, when I tried to copy that over it fails.

gpart show says it's really 200M - how can I increase the size of the actual DOS partition?

 

[VladiBG]

Post the output of
gpart show

 

[rainer_d]

=>      40  83886000  da0  GPT  (40G)
        40    409600    1  efi  (200M)
    409640  79282176    2  freebsd-ufs  (38G)
  79691816   4194223    3  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
  83886039         1       - free -  (512B)

Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0p1    767K    2.5K    765K     0%    /mnt

 

[VladiBG]

newfs_msdos -F 32 -c 1 /dev/da0p1
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0p1 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/BOOT
cp /boot/loader.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi
umount /mnt

 

[rainer_d]

ah, ok.
Thanks a lot.

That seems to have worked!

 

[SirDice]

Earlier versions created quite a small efi partition. If loader.efi doesn't fit you can put boot1.efi in there instead.