Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 18:08:34 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Fernando_Herrero_Carr=C3=B3n?= <elferdo@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI) Message-ID: <CAMwkeZznenmN1RkUaKZ7i12F0FA185ZH%2BcHPXUp56S8j3SrubQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone,
A few months ago I got myself a new box and I have been happily running
FreeBSD on it ever since. I noticed that the boot was not as fast as I had
expected and I've realized that, while my disk is GPT partitioned, the boot
process is still BIOS based:
% gpart show
=> 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K)
1064 984 - free - (492K)
2048 67108864 2 freebsd-swap (32G)
67110912 909662208 3 freebsd-zfs (434G)
976773120 15 - free - (7.5K)
I am reading uefi(8) and it looks like FreeBSD 11 should be able to boot
using UEFI straight into ZFS, so I am thinking of converting that
freebsd-boot partition to an EFI partition, creating a FAT filesystem and
copying /boot/boot.efi there.
How good of an idea is that? Would it really be that simple or am I missing
something? My only reason for wanting to boot with UEFI is faster boot,
everything is working fine otherwise.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best,
Fernando
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