Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:29:34 +0300 From: Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi> To: CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10.1-RELEASE UEFI RAID0 ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AMD64 PhenomIIx6 Message-ID: <55B5270E.5060306@kapsi.fi> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjkCfgMjSkbJ8J8ByTaEthJai8P6Z%2B66UFCSWU9ph1XipQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXjkCfgMjSkbJ8J8ByTaEthJai8P6Z%2B66UFCSWU9ph1XipQ@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 22.7.2015 10:57, CeDeROM wrote: > Hello there :-) > > I have successfully installed and running FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE AMD64 > on ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AMD64 PhenomIIx6 using RAID0 booting with UEFI. > > UEFI and GPT seems replacement for BIOS+MBR in modern PC hardware. You > can forget about BIOS+MBR in case of UEFI which is tightly related to > hardware/firmware. > > What is best about FreeBSD that I also could to the setup on older > ASUS M4A88TD/V EVO/USB3.0 which did NOT support UEFI at all. RAID0 was > possible to accomplish in 4TB size with no problem. GPT support was > already there in FreeBSD. I have installed MBR bootloader which then > switched to GPT support. This setup was not possible for Windows nor > Linux which were limited to see two 2TB devices, even on RAID. Hale to > the FreeBSD!! :-) Gratz :) Although, I think it would be possible with Linux but you would have to use a DIY distro like Gentoo that doesn't hide all the features behind a cascade of automagic system management UI-dialogs or scripts. That being said, haven't done a customized Linux installation for years now, since FreeBSD + documentation enable me to more easily create a customized FreeBSD installation for spesific tasks. > However, FreeBSD Boot and Kernel seems to work somehow different on > UEFI. There is no loader menu, there is no OS prompt. There is problem > with Xorg-NVidia driver which hangs the boot process at loader (you > need to use kld_list in rc.conf instead), and then hangs the computer > somewhere on screen blank. All seems new but familiar :-) That must be because UEFI depends on kms.ko to get a framebuffer console. In this case it would be the kms/VESA module. So probably there's some kind of race condition between the kms/VESA framebuffer and nVidia kmod. Have you already checked if there's any PR about this? If not, you could make one. I am sure this could be fixed easily. > Also installing OS on UEFI is somewhat different. You need to create a > dedicated EFI partition where boot code is loaded (using dd as > presented on uefi wiki). BSDInstall creates such partition but its > only 512k in size, while boot1.efifat is 800k. I have created separate > partition that is 100M and it works fine as well. I think installed > could increase the boot partition size, and then dd the boot1.efifat > over there during install on UEFI platform..? Hmm, this is something you should definitely make a PR for, if you can. Your description makes it seem like the BSDInstall scripts are a bit behind the actual UEFI boot stack. > FreeBSD IS THE BEST!! THANK YOU!! :-) > Tomek > Thank you for describing your use case. This is valuable information :) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (MingW32) iF4EAREIAAYFAlW1JxIACgkQTBivhqtJa27TwQD8D8etc34KPc9Bw3/xjh4rjoRb LUSYIw5k2Ygz54JZs+sA/Aq2QEQG8ECfR8WkBPCAVHM6cFB4hsB4vJBWlAZ640kz =TeJ1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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