Native EFI Bootloader Support for OpenBSD

Contributed by phessler on 2015-09-02 from the gotta boot 'em all dept.

As the j2k15 hackathon comes to a close, OpenBSD gets its very own native EFI bootloader.

On Twitter, Yojiro UO (yuo@-san) posted a list of systems tested and working with the new bootloader.

result: UEFI/Openbsd tested on VAIO Fit15A, VAIO Z, VAIO Z Canvas, minnow board max, lenovo E145, NEC Lavie LX750. all of them work fine.
— Yojiro UO (@yojiro) September 2, 2015

As you can see, a number of EFI-only systems are now successfully booting OpenBSD.

And as seen on twitter Yasuoka@-san posted a little teaser with the dmesg from an EFI-only MinnowBoard

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By journeysquid (Tor) on 2015-09-02 13:28 http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

Great! Any tips on how to use it? Is it part of the snapshots installer? Do I need GPT partitioning? Will installboot(8) be able to install it to a drive? Do I need a FAT32 partition at the front of the drive for UEFI?

I checked the committed README, but it's just a license.
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1. By phessler (phessler) on 2015-09-02 13:36 http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html
  
  > Great! Any tips on how to use it? Is it part of the snapshots installer? Do I need GPT partitioning? Will installboot(8) be able to install it to a drive? Do I need a FAT32 partition at the front of the drive for UEFI?
  >
  > I checked the committed README, but it's just a license.
  >
  
  It is currently not included in the installer yet. Work is on-going, but now others can assist.
2. By anon (87.118.91.140) on 2015-09-11 05:09
  
  > Great! Any tips on how to use it? Is it part of the snapshots installer? Do I need GPT partitioning? Will installboot(8) be able to install it to a drive? Do I need a FAT32 partition at the front of the drive for UEFI?
  >
  > I checked the committed README, but it's just a license.
  >
  
  Chris posted an email on @misc: https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg140905.html
By WaynO (105.225.207.170) on 2015-09-02 13:44

The amount of work that goes into this Operating System is simply amazing.

All I can say is "thank you"!
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1. By Mark (87.92.243.246) on 2015-09-03 20:05
  
  > The amount of work that goes into this Operating System is simply amazing.
  >
  > All I can say is "thank you"!
  
  Seconded! This is simply amazing.
By Blake (2a01:e34:ec06:8f90:5a55:caff:fef5:2a75) on 2015-09-04 22:13 2112.net

An EFI bootloader & i386 hypervisor in the same week?

Send the Champagne corks flying :-)

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