Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 21:14:42 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Switch from legacy to UEFI boot?? Message-ID: <CALfReycVbdW_0q0GT73uK1zW29b5fs7m98%2B1nUmWW=VCvwLRRw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <56B38299.7030800@qeng-ho.org> References: <20160203213414.GB60231@rancor.immure.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1602040842580.1065@mail.fig.ol.no> <56B353E5.9080605@fechner.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1602041447560.1065@mail.fig.ol.no> <86k2mk7cmz.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <56B38299.7030800@qeng-ho.org>
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*you will need a small efi partition on the b*oot drive. You should still have the option to bios boot as well. here is a layout from one of my systems. You can see I trimmed the space from swap $ gpart show ada0 =3D> 34 117231341 ada0 GPT (56G) 34 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) 1058 6 - free - (3.0K) 1064 262144 2 efi (128M) 263208 3932154 4 freebsd-swap (1.9G) 4195362 113036013 3 freebsd-zfs (54G) On 4 February 2016 at 16:55, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > On 04/02/2016 14:50, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > >> >> Trond Endrest=C3=B8l writes: >> >> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:36+0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> is it true that currently the EFI loaded cannot boot a ZFS root? >>>> >>> >>> As of r294999, stable/10's boot1.efi and loader.efi is able to boot >>> ZFS. Both boot1.efi and loader.efi takes the bootfs property into >>> consideration... Maybe you should wait until the next stable/10 >>> snapshot is available... >>> >> >> The ZFS-compatible EFI loader is expected to be ready for 10.3-RELEASE, >> which is scheduled for about six weeks from now.[1] It may be a bit more >> or less time than that, depending on how things go, but the first beta >> snapshot of 10.3 (which is cut from 10-STABLE) is set to be built >> tomorrow. If you don't want to run a development branch, you won't have >> much longer to wait. Though once that change happens, you'd have to back >> up your data and reconfigure your boot scheme to make use of >> ZFS-compatible UEFI booting. >> >> [1]: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/schedule.html >> >> > I currently have a pure ZFS system with boot environments which I > currently boot using BIOS compatibility mode. Will I just be able to swit= ch > to UEFI boot under 10.3? Is the EFI loader smart enough to find boot > environments for itself, or do we have to flag them in some fashion? > > -- > Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ > necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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