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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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