Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 12:32:59 -0400 From: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <0ffdf8a5-b6ad-ab74-9011-c471a96dbf25@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20171004093341.C969913E77@mx1.scaleengine.net> References: <10608d2a-4209-25c1-4117-8568993bfe6a@selasky.org> <ca1e0494-2c6a-53c5-1d53-215acddf3479@freebsd.org> <20171004093341.C969913E77@mx1.scaleengine.net>
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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 -- Allan Jude
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