Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 12:29:21 +0200 (CEST) From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: UEFI equivalent of boot.config? (Was: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver) Message-ID: <20180523.122921.74726348.sthaug@nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <m1fLQNs-0000G0C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net> References: <201805222212.w4MMCdA9031937@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <m1fLQNs-0000G0C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net>
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Hijacking a thread here, > Turns out, you can't install FreeBSD using a USB stick image because the > BIOS only support MBR. No idea why MBR support was dropped for the USB images. > > In the end I had to find a CD burner, and after a couple of tries managed to > install from CD. On a somewhat related note - I recently installed 11.1-STABLE on a box with support for both UEFI and "good old fashioned BIOS". I initially used UEFI and GPT, but ended up switching to BIOS and MBR because I needed boot.config to enable booting from an alternate partition. Despite lots of Googling I couldn't find a simple way to do this using config stored on the disk itself (e.g. having "0:ad(0,f)/boot/loader" in /boot.config) with UEFI. Does anybody know if this can be done using UEFI? Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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