Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:57:00 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 201898] [bsdinstall] UEFI boot partition too small by default Message-ID: <bug-201898-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201898 Bug ID: 201898 Summary: [bsdinstall] UEFI boot partition too small by default Product: Base System Version: 10.1-RELEASE Hardware: amd64 OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Many People Priority: --- Component: misc Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: cederom@tlen.pl I have managed to install FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE on UEFI AMD64 machine. UEFI requires AMD64 and GPT partition scheme. UEFI requires dedicated EFI FAT partition with the bootstrap loader code. FreeBSD already contains this partition image which is stored in /boot/boot1.efifat. This file so far is 800k. Default boot partition size is 512k. In BSDInstall it is possible to create GPT partitions. When creating freebsd-ufs, the installer recommends to create additional boot partition. But this partition does not meet UEFI requirements. Please update bsdinstall so it creates EFI BOOT partition type 10M size (MS Windows makes it 100M) when using GPT [1]. It would be nice if bsdinstall also makes dd of /boot/boot1.efifat onto that partition during install, so user can boot in UEFI after install. Thank you! :-) Tomek [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#Bootable_UEFI_memory_stick -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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