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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:53:44 -0400
From:      Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>
To:        Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Cc:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CloverEFIBoot (was Re: Call for Testing: UEFI Changes)
Message-ID:  <D901B96E-15B1-4A24-B155-2CCCA640ECDB@foolishgames.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNzvh6xdCLg0PnqkDzb9yLmoK1-WUVF6CDG3gn%2BkA_05qA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4730997e-bd13-b87f-276f-875a06a26383@FreeBSD.org> <CAFMmRNzvh6xdCLg0PnqkDzb9yLmoK1-WUVF6CDG3gn%2BkA_05qA@mail.gmail.com>

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Machines don=E2=80=99t need to be old to have issues. I have a two year old a=
sus am3+ board that cant boot from gpt without secure boot enabled and is ha=
rd coded for Microsoft keys=20

Lucas Holt

> On Apr 11, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi;
>>=20
>> FWIW, I use a very old PC of the type where the processor will not be fix=
ed
>> by Intel and that still needs support for the traditional BIOS. I also
>> bought a 3TB HD (they were easier to find that 2T).
>>=20
>> If I leave the disk dedicated to FreeBSD it recognizes the complete 3TB a=
nd
>> will happily use ZFS for everything, however I want to dual boot so after=

>> lots of testing I ended up ignoring 1 TB of HD :(.
>>=20
>> It does happen that there is a really nice boot loader that could have sa=
ved
>> the day but it is very difficult to install standalone:
>>=20
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot
>>=20
>> Just in case someone has the time and inclination to play with it :)
>>=20
>> Pedro.
>=20
> Is the issue due to using MBR partitioning?  FreeBSD supports booting
> from a GPT partition from a traditional BIOS; you don't need EFI.  Is
> this machine so old that its BIOS doesn't support booting from GPT?
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