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Date:      Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:43:40 +0000
From:      myfreeweb <greg@unrelenting.technology>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Subject:   Re: AWS Graviton1 Graviton2
Message-ID:  <56F00B87-F169-4B6F-8C36-5AD98E084C7F@unrelenting.technology>
In-Reply-To: <CAHu1Y72=sxWTTdfzCrCAha_Uo_OKbcFZfxSCs53%2BS-5J1Vqq3g@mail.gmail.com>
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On September 26, 2020 12:54:59 AM UTC, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras=2E=
com> wrote:
>I'm using an instance based on the marketplace AMI: ami-01d2b8af277052bcc=
=2E4
>and trying
>to come up with a partition scheme on a new disk that works=2E  No joy so=
 far=2E
>
>Must I use MBR as the scheme?

No of course not=2E It's actually really stupid that the official AMIs use=
 MBR=2E I used GPT when I first booted FreeBSD on the Graviton instances=2E

You should use GPT=2E

>Is EFI boot the only way?

Yes=2E What else would you even want? :)

FreeBSD does not support any other kind of boot on arm64=2E Even embedded =
crap devices load the EFI loader from u-boot=2E



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