From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed May 23 15:23:22 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 4444EF0C23E for ; Wed, 23 May 2018 15:23:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpeddiem@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x243.google.com (mail-it0-x243.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C85D16FA03 for ; Wed, 23 May 2018 15:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carpeddiem@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x243.google.com with SMTP id y189-v6so4905944itb.2 for ; Wed, 23 May 2018 08:23:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=3Ouimw0i2W61MnefbkUj5skAbRcHih6UB+jbjYO43r4=; b=elaLK3UU1z/EMS69/UaQxkj6ZnARxLeUEzcKmzoGrVjiTVBMCp3spP0ldLrWsuxz0V DSNCub1RXB8wsIrlIthoY5zk/vvOcKe5pMANrOrRyl11OqB9xiTrUv5eryfA91NS24C9 5VdoNIWGuF1+H9lYun5LMM5odk2/SdAWCieSutasrtZW5DshMWUMrILe6kHaSaHQFQP1 tSlhwbPRc67kWA+5OMbv3Sto2PZEdFDKlIQWJXSRe2r332BDqCnbrRNpOUkNf9tVLMYm L7eqb8h9Z5H4UVRQ1OMKyik1GKwOAyc4gidLvA/i35JTGzsJ0UvO1nRMvz9fAR5NRjOZ 4W1Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=3Ouimw0i2W61MnefbkUj5skAbRcHih6UB+jbjYO43r4=; b=AOoo+VUC8stq0jeA5heCPNVF2wo1wPY/FMYRzOpr2yRVURUgIuoA3GbHp6V0D3lRFv hD2asWKhLy5jbUqbLxFJ0ibcEFHWUF6UTiM4YC/XvmkEYHECeI8Up2EBaxXWRk+16uL1 8k+rBA+XVrrwP8NDq8QRDz9BBCHnfA8gekZJoTKrpDWPS1tZ8YlS7j1+bVAUlzNUiMhT C+spXhBAKl2kxRjY8X1hDuPjKCOgjU2WzFezwAJHPa59WjdDJfXV3bHeQWu4vcdiU/NF xvln7gJmmdNQSirWB/FsFw69r3TjzzencSZgQnd7z97ZiyIgxn1uYJv8rnlSfEFRxR5/ 7Mbg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALKqPwclFJMYF/Qv2fmftWDYV4rB2/YRTzXAb0Ne7YGXWJe95DLaLiH+ tLfaNiOA0qo9ZBmqf53rgKgAAwQ2GV2h2tbmgDvMxxIj X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADUXVKIuyWLHLLbRLPg5roUE4uzmzPkOkdZy8hb2OTmKl0keqWsAOdQDzNC52LoPIRNhssGyQmcsWoqCDDRfBVSdVZU= X-Received: by 2002:a24:3555:: with SMTP id k82-v6mr5423398ita.49.1527088999626; Wed, 23 May 2018 08:23:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: carpeddiem@gmail.com Received: by 2002:a6b:82a7:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Wed, 23 May 2018 08:22:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201805222212.w4MMCdA9031937@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> From: Ed Maste Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 11:22:59 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dHDqLzXM2sBZGDyxf-qp8EWQGkw Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver To: Philip Homburg Cc: FreeBSD Current Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 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, 23 May 2018 15:23:22 -0000 On 23 May 2018 at 05:48, Philip Homburg 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?