Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 00:25:58 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@gmx.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <ab5b3750-06d8-964a-c1e0-3c45057610c7@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <EE535C3F-6843-49A3-B4DD-38F8BF085353@me.com> References: <10608d2a-4209-25c1-4117-8568993bfe6a@selasky.org> <ca1e0494-2c6a-53c5-1d53-215acddf3479@freebsd.org> <20171004093341.C969913E77@mx1.scaleengine.net> <0ffdf8a5-b6ad-ab74-9011-c471a96dbf25@freebsd.org> <EE535C3F-6843-49A3-B4DD-38F8BF085353@me.com>
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On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:08:49 +0200, Toomas Soome wrote: > > With r325310, the UEFI boot with CURRENT should be ok with >512B sectors. The BIOS part is still work in the process. I can confirm that I'm now able to boot my Macbook Pro with 4K SSD. >> On 4 Oct 2017, at 19:32, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> On 2017-10-04 05:27, Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> from Allan Jude: >>> >>>>> Anyone has any recommendations or experience about how to use native 4K >>>>> disks with FreeBSD? >>> >>>>> --HPS >>> >>>> It is not possible in legacy/BIOS mode, because the BIOS calls do not >>>> let you specify a sector size. >>> >>>> However, you SHOULD be able to boot from the 4k device using UEFI. >>>> I am trying to debug a problem I am having with this on my new Mac, >>>> which has a 4k NVMe disk. >>> >>> I've been trying to figure how to boot a FreeBSD system with UEFI as opposed to BIOS-style. >>> >>> I read the documentation, but want to boot a partition that might not be the first BSD partition on the hard disk. >>> >>> For instance, some UFS partitions might have a NetBSD installation, a different FreeBSD installation, or no OS installation. >>> >>> I read the man page (uefi) and looked at the files in /boot; have an EFI partition set up with more than enough space. >>> >>> I would also want to be able to boot other UEFI-capable OSes including Linux, NetBSD (if that works), and Haiku when and if possible. >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> >> In this case, You likely want to install a tool like rEFInd, which will >> draw a menu of all of the installed OSes and let you pick. >> >> I use this in two of my laptops, one dual boots freebsd and windows, and >> the other OS X and FreeBSD on my macbook pro
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