From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Apr 11 17:21:44 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42CEF80D37 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from stargazer.midnightbsd.org (stargazer.midnightbsd.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f11:1c7::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "stargazer.midnightbsd.org", Issuer "COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E5736B6BF; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [10.88.24.193] (mobile-166-177-58-152.mycingular.net [166.177.58.152]) (authenticated bits=0) by stargazer.midnightbsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w3BGroF7030233 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:53:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.4 at stargazer.midnightbsd.org X-Authentication-Warning: stargazer.midnightbsd.org: Host mobile-166-177-58-152.mycingular.net [166.177.58.152] claimed to be [10.88.24.193] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: CloverEFIBoot (was Re: Call for Testing: UEFI Changes) From: Lucas Holt X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (15E216) In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:53:44 -0400 Cc: Pedro Giffuni , FreeBSD Current Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4730997e-bd13-b87f-276f-875a06a26383@FreeBSD.org> To: Ryan Stone X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:21:44 -0000 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 wrote: >=20 >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Pedro Giffuni 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? > _______________________________________________ > 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"=