On 04/25/14 15:00, Adrian Chadd wrote:
On 25 April 2014 14:41, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote:
On 04/25/14 14:11, Glen Barber wrote:
Author: gjb
Date: Fri Apr 25 21:11:00 2014
New Revision: 264935
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/264935
Log:
Add a separate script to build the memstick.img and the
mini-memstick.img with UEFI support.
As the comments in the file suggest, 1) there must
be existing ${.OBJDIR}/usr/src/release/{release,bootonly};
2) TARGET/TARGET_ARCH must be amd64; and 3) it must be
a vt(4)-enabled kernel with vt_efifb (*not* vt_vga).
This script is not hooked into release/Makefile in any way
until further testing is complete.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Added:
head/release/amd64/make-uefi-memstick.sh (contents, props changed)
I understand this is for testing, but is there any reason we can't just have
one GPT memstick that boots both BIOS and EFI eventually? Or is that the
plan already?
Because BIOSes don't get enough testing.
It's the same reason why I'm highly tempted to figure out how to teach
the installer to do MBR installs out of the box as well as GPT
installs out of the box, because I've found a bunch of BIOSes on
recent hardware that seems to assume GPTs == EFI booting, and just
plain don't boot your system. (And yes, it'd be nice to have EFI work
there, but there's still no i386 EFI support.)
The installer *does* do MBR out of the box. Just format the disk with
MBR and press "Auto". It also does straight bsd labels in the same way.
-Nathan
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