From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Jul 5 14:49:34 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 CE566102FE67; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 14:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mail.blih.net (mail.blih.net [212.83.177.182]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.blih.net", Issuer "mail.blih.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B25E806A9; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 14:49:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from manu@bidouilliste.com) Received: from mail.blih.net (mail.blih.net [212.83.177.182]) by mail.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6d20f1fa; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:49:25 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=bidouilliste.com; h= mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to :cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:message-id; s=mail; bh=Cmwm1q GFZNEvx6X1b6OKFAwbxy8=; b=mHrSD0K1SfVZ4JuGXqMYOiXYhhGGkqp3g+9CQ/ 2lwGVntfaieGM4VwXCJiIkiybpItRUtf4VBzJrnKznGYNQf3f51COrDmw9TveN6H UPGcUnfyQhxGLpGBFLycuep364Lug61nou/G98VlMvWNfL5w0PzuDK95vKRMWDtc OFO94= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=bidouilliste.com; h= mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:date:from:to :cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:message-id; q=dns; s=mail; b= JIBkyvF3wn3gaKox1J2zVkLJqIU7BsvyvsPYG/mLfPi/bnwPzFMPan5ejdLRrzBM 1Z2nm6Z6Q0OatvY6dvGpnctgV69Wxu3Sn7qKeiNpiJ6eXSJ3KKjriRU9Nevp79Nq MCm9U9YIgABLocjY1keUkhCX5OAp5GRhhb8zWav+fxY= Received: from webmail.megadrive.org (www1.blih.net [212.83.177.180]) by mail.blih.net (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id cf36f1c2; Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:49:25 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 16:49:25 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Cc: FreeBSD Current , owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive Organization: Bidouilliste In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <38d764d4ff3cf05e7619c79766716acd@megadrive.org> X-Sender: manu@bidouilliste.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 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: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:49:35 -0000 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