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Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:57:42 +0200
From:      Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   ZFS UEFI boot?
Message-ID:  <4B45B989-C3FF-4C60-A648-38603F0E63D4@ultra-secure.de>

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Hi,

according to the wiki:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#Tasks =
<https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#Tasks>;

it=E2=80=99s still unsolved and hasn=E2=80=99t even been started.


According to the status report:

=
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.html#ZFS-Suppor=
t-for-UEFI-Boot/Loader =
<https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-04-2015-06.html#ZFS-Suppo=
rt-for-UEFI-Boot/Loader>

some work has been done.

=
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-March/047486.html=
 =
<https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-March/047486.htm=
l>


The reason I=E2=80=99m asking is that all of our servers are HP DL =
3[6|8]0 Gen9.
These servers only support UEFI boot (you can set them to legacy-boot =
only for the next reboot).
I would assume this to be true for more and more servers.

I was playing with the idea of replacing the P440 controllers that we =
normally buy for these servers with the H240 controllers (these can be =
put into a so called =E2=80=9EHBA mode=E2=80=9C  and then present each =
disk directly, making them better suited for ZFS).

However, the server still only boots with UEFI.

And ZFS I want primarily to leverage beadm across all our servers...










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