Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 13:17:49 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CloverEFIBoot (was Re: Call for Testing: UEFI Changes) Message-ID: <43f04b08-aecd-37d8-8135-e449d7726fb7@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <D901B96E-15B1-4A24-B155-2CCCA640ECDB@foolishgames.com> References: <4730997e-bd13-b87f-276f-875a06a26383@FreeBSD.org> <CAFMmRNzvh6xdCLg0PnqkDzb9yLmoK1-WUVF6CDG3gn%2BkA_05qA@mail.gmail.com> <D901B96E-15B1-4A24-B155-2CCCA640ECDB@foolishgames.com>
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On 11/04/2018 11:53, Lucas Holt wrote: > Machines don’t need to be old to have issues. I have a two year old asus am3+ board that cant boot from gpt without secure boot enabled and is hard coded for Microsoft keys > > Lucas Holt Interesting. Not sure Clover would help there though, secure boot is a different issue: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot Cheers, Pedro. >> On Apr 11, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Hi; >>> >>> FWIW, I use a very old PC of the type where the processor will not be fixed >>> by Intel and that still needs support for the traditional BIOS. I also >>> bought a 3TB HD (they were easier to find that 2T). >>> >>> If I leave the disk dedicated to FreeBSD it recognizes the complete 3TB and >>> 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 :(. >>> >>> It does happen that there is a really nice boot loader that could have saved >>> the day but it is very difficult to install standalone: >>> >>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot >>> >>> Just in case someone has the time and inclination to play with it :) >>> >>> Pedro. >> 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"
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