From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 18:49:03 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 419A73EE for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:49:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (unknown [IPv6:2a02:c200:0:10::404:501]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03E672700 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E9C12C0178 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 917B012C017A; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:49:00 -0700 (PDT) From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: UEFI boot on 10.0 =?utf-8?Q?STABLE=3F?= Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:48:59 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=_munich.parts-unknown.org-28809-1406054939-0001"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Message-Id: <20140722184900.917B012C017A@mail.parts-unknown.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:49:03 -0000 This is a MIME GnuPG-signed message. If you see this text, it means that your E-mail or Usenet software does not support MIME signed messages. The Internet standard for MIME PGP messages, RFC 2015, was published in 1996. To open this message correctly you will need to install E-mail or Usenet software that supports modern Internet standards. --=_munich.parts-unknown.org-28809-1406054939-0001 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, The way I'm booting into FreeBSD right now is far from ideal. For what it's worth, this is an Asus X202e notebook. What I'm doing now is using a Debian kFreeBSD disk to get to grub. It has an option to boot from the first hard disk. That's literally all I need to boot FreeBSD. I'm presently using legacy BIOS emulation to boot the kFreeBSD disk but its a GPT disk. I also needed legacy mode to boot the FreeBSD installation disk so I could even install FreeBSD. I did create an additional EFI partition at the beginning of the disk, modifying the default install. What I'm seeing now looks kind of like a chicken-and-egg problem. I tried installing grub-efi-amd64 but it fails to work the appropriate magic and cast the appropriate spell. I suspect because the disk is GPT running under legacy mode. I also tried rEFInd which has helped enormously with previous linux installations. No joy this time. I've now blown both grub-efi and rEFInd away on the theory that I need to start fresh. It looks like code to deal with UEFI has been merged in to HEAD (a statement that doesn't actually mean all that much to me) and I *am* at this moment trying to upgrade from 10.0 RELEASE to STABLE. Is needed code in STABLE (and not in RELEASE)? Has anyone found a path through this? Where/what is it? Should I just wait for 10.1? Thanks! -- David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the attachment. --=_munich.parts-unknown.org-28809-1406054939-0001 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUAU86yHBV64x4SNmArAQr46xAAkEhjWUoA/4T8mJJVREdx1Xs1sEyZHNhV dzUCc+P5bbjluh1cXVepW7/MQK4R3z4zctsUCx7tLJyDB7dCPBxm06EREZRH7set 2m05+WuyKmyYXR48RrXaceCtFfaIkqployzynWN6ItcOvl4jkOZI+Hngwyh7oXZU NfVT31KLGEn4wJkGj5y4YIVlesM5UTPB4Zq6wQHze9CuK8cvFFCZyzvk13Gv9RX1 BEqges8fHHGw3MDR6T/rrG3PfGqdaZyn8IuLG/JkgABescSMUw0lgLqI9ShoXi9Y k98yoJs3VdRPdC6oSwDIGzCsjAhbnzehGISUKXPVhxEpqqIFrPCZiG78dsy4PfXM ogulP1c/EzshNu1t7e9qMtowSNXn2hVKDo0144EAod6pbEEs+KF1Fq1LkPNoJv1/ 2FUIlM1S8BYRf/xKbLxfUq34e13O2mb95KTm4yFhtAwxol0HaZC8wt1MpgzgMsmP lKGHGOM5eIgTK2/PM+Y7/viepKUchzBxYTEDS4MnmWEViDJXg72ytfAQRNmbaUIE c+iY6qsEuoLQNRvfmzD2nEHaySXgej8rjQrUBcJ/C+JDM7ddxmmj8GwDAFABhTBh QXKV6lnDuxBxbM8gbVPqP/YuqpM4PQmCYlGvzyn3De1ak5YDpdcjK0JUSaBYbuhB JFwDdR3dZH0= =Ri65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_munich.parts-unknown.org-28809-1406054939-0001--