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Date:      Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:01:00 +0200
From:      CeDeROM <cederom@tlen.pl>
To:        Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 10.1-RELEASE UEFI RAID0 ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AMD64 PhenomIIx6
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi> wrote:
>> Also installing OS on UEFI is somewhat different. You need to create a
>> dedicated EFI partition where boot code is loaded (using dd as
>> presented on uefi wiki). BSDInstall creates such partition but its
>> only 512k in size, while boot1.efifat is 800k. I have created separate
>> partition that is 100M and it works fine as well. I think installed
>> could increase the boot partition size, and then dd the boot1.efifat
>> over there during install on UEFI platform..?
>
> Hmm, this is something you should definitely make a PR for, if you can. Your description makes it seem like the BSDInstall scripts are a bit behind the actual UEFI boot stack.

Consider it done Sir! :-)

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201898

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CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info



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