From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Apr 11 18:27:59 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC048F86197 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:27:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sonic301-18.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com (sonic301-18.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com [74.6.129.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EF5B7A4B1 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:27:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1523471278; bh=iRC9dKlhfrXhBnDXvzYMCPxLuOL2QvAxCzSiYInSEno=; h=Subject:To:Cc:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=VHfbL29ZA1m9kxqU2DKF3lungpYZyAtECpoqGNGuBTMTYEjw1Y8EV60OmQ5v9M+Rrex3dbsn/9SBb39ZS+xmiCfd15dTn8hPXXv2r/Iusgu/A6vcCrqA7nuqIJRaMzqxsATNK1Wh+KtjC980nXNsHvH4MVFY2c1rxQNLooGFVSPRnLjQWyjglToecKGevrR1Ho6vR+XVyvzKxH+mGdU6ni6nOzuSSdU0vF1ug9Tv0pi0nkZAHBjIfoSwcsfmfixSp1z7PYCU/qbgXGjJcd2HM+fz3WDCKOtNclnkeV8GvlXRPYgjpCEn0vies5vSW8V6cXKiy8UOf95n82BOh+w79A== X-YMail-OSG: VYZt.DMVM1n8Bclgjt_g.3eUIJ5kSADBe_mU6iKzxW7P4RvU9LulCmMSnO20vqe fm1fxYg3xPZ5KsIT.RGrogTYFh5b45_79cLStHYf159Xwn09rkkGBFg2__P_sdlujyDnIySqwSIr LKG2xsF0CnuOzlB54dxnKkeXRDHkfPguUEasJqgYJWEHCl17IzlVMIY.mozuOIlSm1lVDg5DjrOQ wlhT4N.67qNpwQHAA5RecuTUFe_bspQRwSrxwm1NnFXHsBOZQ3ekgaitoJF50XEt2ctqibIjnsb1 c32dgdgfEkgieyZ8KMtu0_gEAyJCQ2T2yb1mi8kKq6HOeWuvegHh.5xMrvUR3auX8CVQDsrc1Kac HEBvhGmN3p4Kw2NcjjgpwV0PX0nNtusn1Dl8qm4p8tYI6A8ha64JIr.UGgAj9IVprk_suFV73pfg J0YA29Ui2_aBlBIBzkJbUvUFp9UKSFs9eZL9YRpg_oqVE2rUrk5NBW0.Ic1x5D0jMSbIGOK_JUHD SfrNHy0bi9g-- Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic301.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:27:58 +0000 Received: from 181.52.72.201 (EHLO [192.168.0.6]) ([181.52.72.201]) by smtp423.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (Oath Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 6d07f456b6d0203c75f304b27aa30d9a; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: CloverEFIBoot (was Re: Call for Testing: UEFI Changes) To: Lucas Holt , Ryan Stone Cc: FreeBSD Current References: <4730997e-bd13-b87f-276f-875a06a26383@FreeBSD.org> From: Pedro Giffuni Organization: FreeBSD Project Message-ID: <43f04b08-aecd-37d8-8135-e449d7726fb7@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:17:49 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:28:00 -0000 On 11/04/2018 11:53, Lucas Holt wrote: > Machines don’t need to be old to have issues. I have a two year old asus am3+ board that cant boot from gpt without secure boot enabled and is hard coded for Microsoft keys > > Lucas Holt Interesting. Not sure Clover would help there though, secure boot is a  different issue: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot Cheers, Pedro. >> On Apr 11, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Ryan Stone wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >>> Hi; >>> >>> FWIW, I use a very old PC of the type where the processor will not be fixed >>> by Intel and that still needs support for the traditional BIOS. I also >>> bought a 3TB HD (they were easier to find that 2T). >>> >>> If I leave the disk dedicated to FreeBSD it recognizes the complete 3TB and >>> will happily use ZFS for everything, however I want to dual boot so after >>> lots of testing I ended up ignoring 1 TB of HD :(. >>> >>> It does happen that there is a really nice boot loader that could have saved >>> the day but it is very difficult to install standalone: >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot >>> >>> Just in case someone has the time and inclination to play with it :) >>> >>> Pedro. >> Is the issue due to using MBR partitioning? FreeBSD supports booting >> from a GPT partition from a traditional BIOS; you don't need EFI. Is >> this machine so old that its BIOS doesn't support booting from GPT? >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"