Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 21:24:40 -0500 From: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> To: "Alexander Shendi (Web.de)" <Alexander.Shendi@web.de> Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD/amd64 on ASUS Transformer T100 kconvertible tablet? Message-ID: <4BF9DAE0-176E-47E1-81B7-6899B35BC0E1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <535BAFE3.9090208@web.de> References: <1afmy6anpfrg2vhg3t1tovj9.1398420388596@email.android.com> <20140425124859.GA29817@sh4-5.1blu.de> <535BAFE3.9090208@web.de>
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> On Apr 26, 2014, at 8:08 AM, "Alexander Shendi (Web.de)" <Alexander.Shendi= @web.de> wrote: >=20 > I have downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-VT-20140423-r264794-memstick.= img > from ftp.freebsd.org and copied it to an USB memory stick with dd(1). > As expected the machine did not boot. >=20 > So I have two more questions: > * I know (by googleing) that a project to support UEFI Firmware boot FreeB= SD exists. > Can anyone point me to a ftp site or other resources. Hey Alex, That may not actually be necessary. To my understanding, UEFI supports handl= ing BIOS systems with a mode called the Compatability Support Module. In mos= t PCs, this can be forced on for all attempted boots in the EFI startup opti= ons. Moreover, even if this laptop you're working with does not have a setti= ng for this in its options, I know that the process of enabling this mode ca= n be handled by a UEFI boot loader; rEFInd on my Mac handles CSM-mode OSes j= ust fine, even though the Mac itself doesn't have a setting the directly ena= ble it. I've never tried any of this before, but it may be possible to insta= ll rEFInd on your EFI part on your laptop first, and install FreeBSD plus it= s bootloader on it's own partition, at which point rEFInd ought to pick it u= p. I've never tried this, but it seems that would work fine. > * Can anyone enlighten me how to mount the memory stick, so I can extract > the FreeBSD kernel (under Linux)? I think 'sudo modprobe ufs' / 'sudo mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=3Dufs2' will w= ork. If not, there's always a FUSE module! --Matt=
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