Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:57:39 -0600 From: Kim Shrier <kim@westryn.net> To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Cc: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Resuming old EFI project Message-ID: <DE7DCF03-9858-4060-A188-1F631DFB5D08@westryn.net> In-Reply-To: <541714E0.90609@freebsd.org> References: <54159AC5.1010800@metricspace.net> <1410716250.4174.3.camel@bruno> <5415F505.3070206@metricspace.net> <541604F1.9010402@freebsd.org> <5416D6EB.7020803@metricspace.net> <541714E0.90609@freebsd.org>
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On Sep 15, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 09/15/14 05:09, Eric McCorkle wrote: >> On 09/14/2014 17:13, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> >>>>> What specifically are you looking to work on? >>>>> >>>> >>>> Well, I had been trying to get it to boot on a mac EFI implementation >>>> as well. There's some funny things that have to happen there >>>> (notably, an HFS+ image). >>> >>> People seem to have had luck with our FAT32 EFI system partitions on >>> macs so far, but this in general is one of the big missing bits: hunting >>> down weird firmwares, testing them, and fixing them when they don't >>> work. We also need the EFI boot1 both to (a) have a better algorithm for >>> finding the right UFS partition to boot from and (b) learn how to boot >>> from ZFS as well as UFS. >> >> I have a 100% ZFS system, so the current boot block doesn't work for me (though I can tell it's being loaded and run). GELI should probably be added to that list as well... >> >> I assume the best thing would be to link in the ZFS code? Or would it be better to install loader into the system partition as well? >> > > It's hard to integrate having loader on the ESP with the way loader and installworld work, so better to keep it on UFS/ZFS. The sparc64 boot1, on which the UEFI boot1 is based, has ZFS support already, so that's the place to look I think. > -Nathan I have a mac-mini server that I purchased in October 2013. I would like to use GPT on the internal drives and boot FreeBSD. I currently have the drives using MBR and booting FreeBSD 10.0. I understand that in order to use GPT instead, I have to have an Apple_boot partition that would then boot FreeBSD. Are the UEFI code and disk partitioning tools able to handle this? I am also interested in switching from UFS to ZFS. Is that possible? I have looked around in the source some, and it appears that most of the pieces are there but maybe not tested. I am willing to use this mac-mini as a test bed and I would be willing to help iron out any issues. Kim
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