Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 11:22:59 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <CAPyFy2C1cf6wPExHWaJ9TL=gChJP69M6WjSnoymTFa-G4MpxoA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <m1fLQNs-0000G0C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net> References: <201805222212.w4MMCdA9031937@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <m1fLQNs-0000G0C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net>
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On 23 May 2018 at 05:48, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote: > > Turns out, you can't install FreeBSD using a USB stick image because the > BIOS only support MBR. No idea why MBR support was dropped for the USB images. We haven't "dropped" MBR support, and our amd64 memstick images are a combined hybrid format and do in general boot on legacy systems. That said, there are a number of firmware implementations that refuse to boot from the hybrid format - this has been a problem with Lenovo firmware in particular. Those of you with a system unable to boot from our MBR images, can you reply to the "Boot USB memstick with MBR" fork of this thread with details about the system and firmware version?home | help
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