Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 07:27:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need X-server to run in bhyve guest Message-ID: <201912031527.xB3FRv8x035601@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20191203094527.GE40372@admin.sibptus.ru>
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> Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Second, unless I select ZFS, there is no option to install on GPT+UEFI. > > > > > Fine, let's install on ZFS. > > > > > > > > Do you mean GPT+UFS? > > > > > > I mean UFS+GPT+UEFI. That means, a EFI partition should be created and > > > populated by the installer, alongside with the UFS and swap partitions. > > > > > > bsdinstall can create and populate the EFI partition when > > > installing on ZFS, but not when installing on UFS. > > > > > > > Not sure what the failure is here. I usually > > > > install MBR/(UFS or ZFS) so this is not a use case for me. > > > > > > How do you create the EFI partition, manually? > > > > I don't use bsdinstall at all, I install using make and a Makefile, > > so, kinda yes, kinda no, not manual, but not bsdinstall either. > > I see. Well, I personally like bsdinstall for simple cases. It's a pity > it cannot automagically create a EFI partition when installing on UFS. > But its ZFS installation routine is neat, and "bsdinstall jail" too. I am not sure you actuall need an EFI partition in that situation, but you may want one, and that is a missing feature of bsdinstall. ` > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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