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BEASTIE.4TH(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    BEASTIE.4TH(8)

NAME

     beastie.4th -- FreeBSD ASCII art boot module

DESCRIPTION

     The file that goes by the name of beastie.4th is a set of commands designed to draw the ASCII art FreeBSD mascot -- known simply as beastie
     -- to the right of the boot loader menu.  The commands of beastie.4th by themselves are not enough for most uses.	Please refer to the exam-
     ples below for the most common situations, and to loader(8) for additional commands.

     Before using any of the commands provided in beastie.4th, it must be included through the command:

	   include beastie.4th

     This line is present in the default /boot/loader.rc file, so it is not needed (and should not be re-issued) in a normal setup.

     The commands provided by it are:

	   draw-beastie 	  Draws the FreeBSD logo.

				  The logo that is drawn is configured by setting the loader_logo variable in loader.conf(5) to one of
				  ``beastie'', ``beastiebw'', ``fbsdbw'', ``orb'', and ``orbbw'' (the default).

				  The position of the logo can be configured by setting the loader_logo_x and loader_logo_y variables in
				  loader.conf(5).  The default values are 46 (x) and 4 (y).

	   clear-beastie	  Clears the screen of beastie.

	   beastie-start	  Initializes the interactive boot loader menu.

				  The loader_delay variable can be configured in loader.conf(5) to the number of seconds you would like to delay
				  loading the boot menu.  During the delay the user can press Ctrl-C to fall back to autoboot or ENTER to proceed.
				  The default behavior is to not delay.

     The environment variables that effect its behavior are:

	   loader_logo
		     Selects the desired logo in the beastie boot menu. Possible values are: ``fbsdbw'', ``beastie'', ``beastiebw'', ``orb'',
		     ``orbbw'' (default), and ``none''.

	   loader_logo_x
		     Sets the desired column position of the logo. Default is 46.

	   loader_logo_y
		     Sets the desired row position of the logo. Default is 4.

	   beastie_disable
		     If set to ``YES'', the beastie boot menu will be skipped.	The beastie boot menu is always skipped if booting UEFI or running
		     non-x86 hardware.

	   loader_delay
		     If set to a number higher than zero, introduces a delay before starting the beastie boot menu. During the delay the user can
		     press either Ctrl-C to skip the menu or ENTER to proceed to the menu. The default is to not delay when loading the menu.

FILES

     /boot/loader      The loader(8).
     /boot/beastie.4th
		       beastie.4th itself.
     /boot/loader.rc   loader(8) bootstrapping script.

EXAMPLES

     Standard i386 /boot/loader.rc:

	   include /boot/beastie.4th
	   beastie-start

     Set a different logo in loader.conf(5):

	   loader_logo="beastie"

SEE ALSO

     loader.conf(5), loader(8), loader.4th(8)

HISTORY

     The beastie.4th set of commands first appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.

AUTHORS

     The beastie.4th set of commands was written by Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, Aleksander Fafula <alex@fafula.com> and Devin Teske
     <dteske@FreeBSD.org>.

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								  April 27, 2014							       BSD

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UEFI(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   UEFI(8)

NAME

     UEFI -- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface bootstrapping procedures

DESCRIPTION

     The UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface provides boot- and run-time services to operating systems.	UEFI is a replacement for the
     legacy BIOS on the i386 and amd64 CPU architectures, and is also used on arm64 and ia64.

     The UEFI boot process loads system bootstrap code located in an EFI System Partition (ESP).  The ESP is a GPT or MBR partition with a spe-
     cific identifier that contains an msdosfs(5) FAT file system with a specified file hierarchy.

	   Partition Scheme    ESP Identifier
	   GPT		       C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
	   MBR		       0xEF

     The UEFI boot process proceeds as follows:
	   1.	UEFI 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 /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI.  The default UEFI boot configuration for FreeBSD
		installs boot1.efi as /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI.
	   2.	boot1.efi locates the first partition with the type freebsd-ufs, and from it loads loader.efi.
	   3.	loader.efi loads and boots the kernel, as described in loader(8).

     The vt(4) system console is automatically selected when booting via UEFI.

FILES

     /boot/boot1.efi
		   First stage UEFI bootstrap
     /boot/boot1.efifat
		   msdosfs(5) FAT file system image containing boot1.efi for use by bsdinstall(8) and the bootcode argument to gpart(8).
     /boot/loader.efi
		   Final stage bootstrap
     /boot/kernel/kernel
		   default kernel
     /boot/kernel.old/kernel
		   typical non-default kernel (optional)

SEE ALSO

     vt(4), msdosfs(5), boot(8), gpart(8)

HISTORY

     UEFI boot support first appeared in FreeBSD 10.1.

AUTHORS

     UEFI boot support was developed by Benno Rice <benno@FreeBSD.org>, Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>, and Nathan Whitehorn
     <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org>.	The FreeBSD Foundation sponsored portions of the work.

CAVEATS

     EFI environment variables are not supported by loader(8) or the kernel.

     boot1.efi loads loader.efi from the first FreeBSD-UFS file system it locates, even if it is on a different disk.

     boot1.efi cannot load loader.efi from a ZFS(8) file system.  As a result, UEFI does not support a typical root file system on ZFS configura-
     tion.

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								 October 17, 2014							       BSD
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