Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:20:03 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@wavecable.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convert MBR Partitions to GPT Message-ID: <20190906132003.a0e2c6a0.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <c071bbe0-75dd-7ab3-1a05-e965969bb299@wavecable.com> References: <1ef6d7eb-a7c9-2a5d-12b2-20c4ef255523@wavecable.com> <20190902133941.e563291f.freebsd@edvax.de> <0e0c086c-a907-d224-98b8-9486d921e7a5@wavecable.com> <20190902141116.264edd01.freebsd@edvax.de> <88cabc53-eff5-3e1a-6e77-2d86da2b8c8d@wavecable.com> <20190902164836.98486301.freebsd@edvax.de> <c071bbe0-75dd-7ab3-1a05-e965969bb299@wavecable.com>
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 08:19:59 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On 9/2/19 7:48 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 06:54:42 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > >> I downloaded the FreeBSD DVD1. Disabled USB 3.0 support in the "UEFI > >> BIOS", as ASUS calls it. Now, FreeBSD does not go into the xhci loop. > > > > Very good! By the way, the commonly accepted terminology is > > either "BIOS" or "UEFI" - it's one or the other. Maybe ASUS > > is already infested by brainless marketing drones... ;-) > > Yes, that is why I quoted ASUS! This motherboard is 7 or 8 years old. So software support should be there. > I have those 3 unused (now) disks, so might as well play... Allow me a sidenote regarding bsdinstall in comparison to ye olde sysinstall (which is no longer part of the documentation): When I installed FreeBSD 12.0 amd64, I noticed that all filesystems were initialized as UFS SU+J = with soft updates and journaling. Now, journaling tends to cause problems when using dump to backup data partition-wise (e. g., "dump -0Lauf /mnt/rootfs.dmp /dev/ada0p2"). At no point during the installation I was asked or had a chance to set how the partitions should be initialized! And imagine a typical "one-partition" system (actually 3 partitions: boot, /, swap) where you cannot easily boot into SUM, have / mounted ro (which is required for changing filesystem attributes) and use tunefs to turn it off - no, you need to boot from external media, which is "nice" when this option is not available... Combined with the desasster that is vt, bsdinstall is somehow a disimprovement for the slightly advanced user... :-/ > I think FreeBSD does not fully support my USB 3.0 controller. Linux > uses the xhci_hcd driver. FreeBSD seems to use the xhci_pci driver?? Could it be possible that you need to load a "support module", i. e., /boot/kernel/acpi_<something>.ko, to make FreeBSD recognize the USB 3.0 ports correctly? If the board's UEFI does support "legacy BIOS booting", try that as well. > On Linux: > p9x79> sudo lspci -v | grep -i asm1042 -B5 -A10 > Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel > Kernel driver in use: ahci > Kernel modules: ahci > > 08:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB > Host Controller (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8B WS Motherboard > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 > Memory at fbc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] > Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [68] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked- > Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel > Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd > > 09:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB > Host Controller (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) > Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8B WS Motherboard > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 > Memory at fbb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] > Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ > Capabilities: [68] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked- > Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3 > Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 > Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel > Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd Yes, looks like a typical USB 3.0 interface. FreeBSD should be able to support that. As I said, check if an additional module might be required. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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