Document boot1.efi

Crude man page for boo1.efi.

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 .include <bsd.init.mk>
 
+.if ${MK_EFI} != "no"
+MAN+=	boot1.efi.8
+.endif
 MAN+=	loader.8
 
 .include <bsd.prog.mk>
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd September 1, 2020
+.Dt BOOT1.EFI 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm boot1.efi
+.Nd UEFI chain loader
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+has been deprecated and will be removed from a future release.
+.Xr loader.efi 8 handles all its former use cases with more flexibility.
+.Pp
+On UEFI systems,
+.Nm
+loads
+.Pa /boot/loader.efi
+from the default root file system and transfers execution there.
+.Ss Initialization
+Before looking for the boot device,
+.Nm
+does the following initialization
+.Bl -bullet
+.It
+Sets up the console using the default UEFI console routines.
+.It
+Discovers all possible block devices on the system.
+.It
+Initializes all file system modules to read files from those devices
+.El
+.Ss Boot Device Selection
+.Nm
+uses the following sequence to determine the root file system for
+booting:
+.Bl -bullet
+.It
+If ZFS is configured,
+.Nm
+will search the for zpools that are bootable, preferring the zpool on
+the boot device over the others.
+.It
+If UFS is configured,
+.Nm
+will search all UFS partitions for a bootable partition.
+It will prefer the lowest numbered bootable partition on the boot
+device over all other choices.
+It will fall back to partitions on other devices if none are found.
+.El
+.Pp
+A partition is considered bootable if it can load
+.Pa /boot/loader.efi
+from it.
+Command line arguments to the next boot stage are
+read from the first existing file of
+.Pa /boot.config
+or
+.Pa /boot/config
+in that order.
+.Ss Caveats
+.Bl -bullet
+.It
+The order in which file systems are tried is undefined.
+.It
+No encryption support is available.
+.It
+There's no way to interrupt the boot process to select booting from some
+other location.
+.It
+When configuring a serial console for FreeBSD, but not for UEFI, no output
+will show up on the serial console from boot1.efi.
+.It
+There's no support for marking partitions as the preferred one.
+.It
+There's no support for boot-once functionality.
+.El