From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Wed Jul 22 07:57:33 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7549A839C; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:57:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-x234.google.com (mail-lb0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DBBE1FF1; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:57:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomek.cedro@gmail.com) Received: by lblf12 with SMTP id f12so131206023lbl.2; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:57:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=AioTLoHYmHq8NMtiZFtRkKgvDpwnDII5csHvdvrwPcY=; b=lFlGUcqrphIIlqdmIQRWau337nDcRSUo6PcAbsQLAMsLDOA1HPT5uJ7OfBZSYfbf6S tu5h6ir05uoqN4X4AMTGI+8Q425Kmft7Tzk85U3PqTk/l6r/aDHjM8asfJVGdpNMjE+B N/KWWbvAC2ha+5I+fiMtqznbCeVeWpRlHuh6m8a09tiwPwUc1KerNWMRyFUxkoeUtseQ GQUFxRQkHKWfNQ3hnzfpAcESfKdPMy+wuDeSSXV5w13InOlgiWriABF0lcLP9I2b2xNq CM/f70xlZNunPdaJuX6E+PwnxDb8DHUF6Jhpx3871teKGbQdVT8rWCWodti/265thciH BfLg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.37.37 with SMTP id v5mr1070877laj.11.1437551849916; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: tomek.cedro@gmail.com Received: by 10.152.45.5 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 09:57:29 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: TLGh07hGOho2T0CIKMmJs0UrYzA Message-ID: Subject: 10.1-RELEASE UEFI RAID0 ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AMD64 PhenomIIx6 From: CeDeROM To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:57:33 -0000 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!! :-) 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 :-) 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..? FreeBSD IS THE BEST!! THANK YOU!! :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info