On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:43:18AM -0600, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > 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.
Live cd/USB can be fallback for this case. _______________________________________________ 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"
