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Date:      Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:49:25 +0200
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive
Message-ID:  <38d764d4ff3cf05e7619c79766716acd@megadrive.org>
In-Reply-To: <F2FA85B0-75AB-4F6A-BF79-93D74F00102C@lists.zabbadoz.net>
References:  <F2FA85B0-75AB-4F6A-BF79-93D74F00102C@lists.zabbadoz.net>

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On 2018-07-05 16:30, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while I can boot memstick images just fine (which are created using
> makefs/mkimg), doing the same thing using gpart/newfs_msdos -F 12/.. I
> am not able to get anything that boots.

  What is the size for the fat12 partition ? Everything over ~30MB will 
fail.
  Go to fat16/fat32 with a size of 150MB just to be sure.

> On a Thinkpad (secure boot is off) from the “boot device chooser from
> ‘BIOS’” I get a quick blank screen and am back at the chooser.  I’ve
> tried the gpart “thinkpad hack” as well as trying an MBR (why that
> should work I don’t know but the memstick one does) and GPT options of
> various kinds.
> 
> 
> Anyone successfully done this lately?
> 
> 
> /bz
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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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