From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Feb 4 21:14:45 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 E7F4DA9C13D for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 21:14:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22d.google.com (mail-wm0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22d]) (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 8D95DE4 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 21:14:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id p63so899949wmp.1 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:14:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=3RyLQxCkqcbyazy8JpYRLNdbtDjfMdebtJOmr8oCepI=; b=Lr+1+L89DuMh5pWY3EjuiuCfokqYJzi35Hs+Eh78Mns0iIq0KBw2CfMm4bZQmfZJWO wk6/jJpfCfv+vnBVC5VuFx3Qg5fq0vo7YGS9um4pIQOshV91R/+nAOoOxFfVhNvxt6aq l0nqlqC0DLgrXv2Jb6ZUnIdaWTsPSAjqOT9MnVCHm0phBAsXkFZ7I/wv+gPhRdAZRUpY /nSt8q+boTG4tQ8Ma8We4f49563D+Xye2K2oLTAX19L2QFSBngwrm/rlHL6pqtrIYjfX ah79EJ1FApaAShNVPd/UNc2uHEvU0SZhGHCv0PT0/vUa/ObqYvot6dtlnK9IyvBzL5zO mFFw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=3RyLQxCkqcbyazy8JpYRLNdbtDjfMdebtJOmr8oCepI=; b=ONm2h9S4mg1bLjom9FkMyvjiQpbzIg1MaL8Ux+BzipPqSfa91gH2LmZv8YPsHKVbXj tdjY4s7UvVnGH2KlBn/4Tf2//Un1WOLB5NULRTu4MnElbzw6ag2bQKWHrqT7MNlhIsY/ N1+ZWxtvTl82iugNDEivfxqZfCeC0QxQ4vcvTBlMyoazzo3MgvS7YVKAgyHrrzb3SQUg lUu2nNL304vhiWoCwM7Jie52Mm7U7RAY77Y3vjbT8pmY+vgk4UQRPDStxHCx0TPJ3VUj vSMrSOEqMKHKaeHcaUwllhP5Zm/wFBynHzo//9rLqXijFPJP3mV9pFmuanxxGksqxiyR 3KFw== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YORd0NfyhcJrwbVRMr9vbhVEWzyLVUiRw7NUs/KTxRii5T9kjzslh2AuIyLe9NWjlW8PNnnz2yZpcsmZ7Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.103.164 with SMTP id fx4mr10484688wjb.56.1454620482963; Thu, 04 Feb 2016 13:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.28.55.132 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Feb 2016 13:14:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56B38299.7030800@qeng-ho.org> References: <20160203213414.GB60231@rancor.immure.com> <56B353E5.9080605@fechner.net> <86k2mk7cmz.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <56B38299.7030800@qeng-ho.org> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 21:14:42 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Switch from legacy to UEFI boot?? From: krad To: Arthur Chance Cc: "Brandon J. Wandersee" , FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:14:45 -0000 *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 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" >