From nobody Tue Jan 16 00:55:25 2024 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4TDVtJ37D7z57xHF for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nc@FreeBSD.org) Received: from liberty.neelc.org (liberty.neelc.org [IPv6:2602:fc24:18:6a66::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4TDVtJ1974z4Pc0 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nc@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from mail.neelc.org (liberty.neelc.org [IPv6:2602:fc24:18:6a66::1]) by liberty.neelc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6043F231C8E8; Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:55:26 -0800 (PST) List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:55:25 -0800 From: Neel Chauhan To: Dewayne Geraghty Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot FreeBSD14 without EFI? In-Reply-To: <6f0ec9db-3544-4442-aa23-2fd3991236bc@heuristicsystems.com.au> References: <6f0ec9db-3544-4442-aa23-2fd3991236bc@heuristicsystems.com.au> Message-ID: X-Sender: nc@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4TDVtJ1974z4Pc0 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:210630, ipnet:2602:fc24:18::/48, country:US] On 2024-01-15 14:27, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: > Thank-you Mathew its given me some hope . Seems that I need to be more > diligent and will reread the relnotes and updating notes from 12.4 > through to 14.0R > > Robert, I think you're right.  I installed the 14.0-RELEASE before I > noticed the efi check-box.  so yes I suspect a problem with my > 14.0Releng build (though I used the same settings for make.conf, > src.conf as I use in 13.2 and 12.4). > > However when using a FreeBSD(32bit) virtual machine using > FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso as the only attached device: > > a) with efi checked - boots to an EFI interface (startup.nsh) and > exit(s) into another interface to "Standard English"... "Continue" > loops back to UEFI shell.  I lack the knowledge about efi to get the > FreeBSD OS to start. To get a UEFI system to boot, you need a EFI system partition. This is a FAT32 partition on your disk of about 100-1000 MB, which contains the .efi files to boot. FreeBSD is the easiest OS to boot on UEFI. The loader.efi file is enough to get FreeBSD loaded. I no longer daily-drive FreeBSD, but I can boot FreeBSD 14 just fine in a virtual machine in BIOS mode. Both VirtualBox on Fedora 39 and KVM on Rocky Linux 9. > FYI: My original problem: I built from source 14.0Releng and upgraded > the 14.0Release without success.  I've also used two other vdi's > without success.  The upgrade used the git pull from 14.0Releng on a > 13.2S system as I'm hoping to migrate my fleet of 12.4S systems to 14 > and figured that 13.2S was a safe build platform (as it also used clang > 16.0.6). I suspect something that I'm doing is at fault.  Unfortunately > the 6 other 12.4S and one 13.2 VM's are functioning so I doubt its the > Windows/Virtualbox, which points to my build/install.  Investigating > further. Maybe just use 14 to build 14 instead of 13.2? If you're building on Windows, you could also try using Hyper-V if you're not using a Home edition. Alternatively you could buy Parallels or build on a Linux PC with KVM. > I appreciate your advice. > > Kind regards, Dewayne. No problem, Neel