Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 01:58:21 +0200 From: Holger Sebert <holger.sebert@mailbox.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for some guidance Message-ID: <032e9da0-9436-3328-effd-463203a1eefa@mailbox.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFDHx1L2mBqdLxf1Jj%2BNFgnXAxaGyXhA02GsqH_3yw--3zdmDQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFDHx1L2mBqdLxf1Jj%2BNFgnXAxaGyXhA02GsqH_3yw--3zdmDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/25/23 19:55, Patrick Mahan wrote: > I run my own domain which lost its main server (hardware issue) about two weeks ago right as I was leaving for a two week family vacation. While I was gone, I ordered a new HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-3055xt as a replacement and bought from FreeBSD Mall the 13.2 AMD64 DVD. > > The Pavilion is running UEFI, but oddly it wasn't recognizing the DVD as a boot media until I went into the boot menu at startup and specifically selected the DVD drive. I also noticed that there was also the "Windows Boot Manager" listed which it seemed UEFI was default. > > The Pavilion came with a 500G SSD and a 2T HD. It seems that Windows OS has been installed on the SSD leaving the HD as available storage. I have also installed the system disk from the old server (1T HD) but it was formatted for the old bios (no UEFI boot partitions). > > After I booted up the FreeBSD DVD and entered shell mode I see (using gpart show) that > nvd0 (SSD) shows the following partitions: > efi (260M) > ms-reserved (16M) > ms-basic-data (476G) > ms-recovery (5.3M) > > The ada0 drive is my old system disk with the following partitions: > freebsd-ufs (/) (50G) > swap (16G) > freebsd-ufs (/var) (100G) > freebsd-ufs (/tmp) (100G) > freebsd-ufs (/usr) (200G) > freebsd-ufs (/home) (465G) > > The ada1 drive is the 2TB with the following partitions: > ms-basic-data (1.8T) > > So my questions are - > > 1) What the heck is this "Windows Boot Manager" and can I use it or must I destroy it? > 2) Do I need to add the loader.efi to the efi directory on nvd0? > 3) Can I mount nvd0? What mount type (FAT32?) do I use? > > That should get me over my first hump. My current plan is to install to the 2T hard drive and use the old system disk as a reference point to retrieve my DNS/Mail/Firewall stuff. > > Thanks for any help, > > Patrick Sounds like you have pre-installed Windows on your new Pavillion machine. Do you need/want it? If no, then I would suggest simply wiping all that cruft and go with the FreeBSD's installer defaults (either UFS of ZFS). Best, Holger
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