On 12/16/2016 11:39, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 06:08:34PM +0100, Fernando Herrero Carrón wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> A few months ago I got myself a new box and I have been happily running >> FreeBSD on it ever since. I noticed that the boot was not as fast as I had >> expected and I've realized that, while my disk is GPT partitioned, the boot >> process is still BIOS based: >> >> % gpart show >> => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G) >> 34 6 - free - (3.0K) >> 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) >> 1064 984 - free - (492K) >> 2048 67108864 2 freebsd-swap (32G) >> 67110912 909662208 3 freebsd-zfs (434G) >> 976773120 15 - free - (7.5K) >> >> I am reading uefi(8) and it looks like FreeBSD 11 should be able to boot >> using UEFI straight into ZFS, so I am thinking of converting that >> freebsd-boot partition to an EFI partition, creating a FAT filesystem and >> copying /boot/boot.efi there. >> >> How good of an idea is that? Would it really be that simple or am I missing >> something? My only reason for wanting to boot with UEFI is faster boot, >> everything is working fine otherwise. >> >> Thanks in advance for your help. > > I am also interesting by this case. > I think expand freebsd-boot to about 1M (size of /boot/boot1.efifat), > dding /boot/boot1.efifat and set to type to 'efi' may be enough. I am > never tried this.
I expect that would work. It's slightly risky, though, since it doesn't let you fall back to BIOS boot if EFI doesn't work. Eric _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
