From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 20 04:57:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D32106566C for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:57:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.224.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0185E8FC08 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:57:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amd620.ovitrap.com ([49.128.188.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q6K4v4VJ024634; Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:57:06 -0600 From: Erich Dollansky To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:59:26 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/8.3-STABLE; KDE/4.7.4; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201207201159.26456.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Cc: =?utf-8?q?G=EF=BF=BDt_Andr=EF=BF=BDs?= , Thomas Mueller , Zoran Kolic Subject: Re: branch 9 and uefi X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:57:15 -0000 Hi, let me make it very short. UEFI worked for me during my first installation on a UEFI machine. I moved = then to 10 and still have no problems. So, if you really fail, install CURRENT and it will work. Of course you are not running then a release system with all the consequenc= es. Erich On Friday 20 July 2012 11:48:32 Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Zoran Kolic : >=20 > > It took me by surprise. The mobo I have on my mind for > > new desktop has uefi instead of bios. It is asus m5a97, > > with 970 chipset, well priced among users on the net. > > How would it behave with 9.1? After all reading, I plan > > to boot it as memory stick and go with simple "guided" > > install. Someone could comment on the topic? > > At the moment, I see I have to avoid manual partition > > and mbr. Or not? > > If it sounds bad, any other option for motherboard and > > amd 8120 cpu? >=20 > G=EF=BF=BDt Andr=D9=81s responded: >=20 > > I had a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.2 on an IBM X3550M3 which is also > > an UEFI maniac one. I could only boot FreeBSD from an USB DVD and > > install it from there. Maybe some legacy fallback boot options are > > availabe for this mobo. I think they have its user manual on their > > website. >=20 > I installed FreeBSD last summer (2011) on a UEFI system, beginning with 9= =2E0-BETA1 after having big problems with NetBSD. >=20 > My hard drive is Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB, practically forcing m= e to use GPT as opposed to MBR. >=20 > I was able to boot, and remain able to boot using System Rescue CD (sysre= sccd.org) and selecting the Super Grub Disk from menus. >=20 > Then I can boot as described in /usr/ports/sysutils/grub2 , which is wher= e I got that information. >=20 > You don't say how big your hard drive is, and if you want to run any OS b= esides FreeBSD. >=20 > You can go into the guided installer to see what it wants to do but are b= etter off selecting partition sizes outside the guided installer. >=20 > bsdinstall's boot partition is useful if you run FreeBSD as the only OS o= n the hard disk, as I have done successfully installing FreeBSD to a USB st= ick. >=20 > I was able to boot the FreeBSD installer USB stick using the memstick ima= ge, and am able to boot the USB-stick FreeBSD installations I've created. >=20 > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 >=20