Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:35:13 +1100 From: Dewayne Geraghty <dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to boot FreeBSD14 without EFI? Message-ID: <d353a813-e5b1-4cad-8502-d580d483eabd@heuristicsystems.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] I pulled the release i386 and amd64 iso's from https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/ <https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/>; and both require EFI to boot. Then I proceeded to download the source for releng14 and did the usual build and install steps for an amd64 vdi (virtualbox setup on a Windows host). However I've been unable to boot from either an MBR or a GPT scheme. Clearly I'm missing something. Does anyone have the incantation to boot without EFI on either i386 or amd64? I added WITHOUT_EFI to /etc/srcconf and rebuilt GENERIC but more is required... Also the loader no longer provides vidconsole as a console device. Has vidconsole been replaced with eficonsole? Regards, Dewayne [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div>I pulled the release i386 and amd64 iso's from <a href="https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://download.freebsd.org/releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/&source=gmail&ust=1705307592461000&usg=AOvVaw2kwUcmM9YLH9Ib8xUWNbHz">https://download.freebsd.org/<wbr>releases/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/</a>; and both require EFI to boot. <br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Then I proceeded to download the source for releng14 and did the usual build and install steps for an amd64 vdi (virtualbox setup on a Windows host). However I've been unable to boot from either an MBR or a GPT scheme. Clearly I'm missing something. Does anyone have the incantation to boot without EFI on either i386 or amd64?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I added WITHOUT_EFI to /etc/srcconf and rebuilt GENERIC but more is required...<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Also the loader no longer provides vidconsole as a console device. Has vidconsole been replaced with eficonsole? <br> </div> <div><br> </div> Regards, Dewayne <p></p> </body> </html>help
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