From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 14:01:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF972106564A for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:01:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A9F8FC19 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:01:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3660F46B89; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:01:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 388748A09A; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:01:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:36:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <4A5CAACC.5080001@omnilan.de> In-Reply-To: <4A5CAACC.5080001@omnilan.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907150836.51694.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:01:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer Subject: Re: booting from label inside GPT partition / EFI loader for amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:01:24 -0000 On Tuesday 14 July 2009 11:57:00 am Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to boot (load the loader) from ad4p2a. Should that be possible? > gptboot claims "no UFS filesystem found" and the ordinary bootcode just > prints Boot Error. > > I have an intel i386 server board which supports EFI booting, but I > think I cannot use the ia64 efi loader, right? > Is there any development bits I can try making my server EFI booting? Err, you souldn't have a ad4p2a if you are using gptboot. gptboot expects you to create separate GPT partitions for each UFS filesystem and swap rather than putting a BSD label inside of a GPT partition. EFI for amd64/i386 is not yet supported. There is some work in a p4 branch to build a 32-bit EFI loader. -- John Baldwin