From nobody Thu Apr 04 12:40:54 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4V9Lnm3sFFz5GxC5 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2024 12:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms-10.1blu.de (ms-10.1blu.de [178.254.4.101]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4V9Lnm22ZXz453B for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2024 12:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from [212.222.85.178] (helo=pureos) by ms-10.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1rsMOm-009pK4-JG; Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:40:56 +0200 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 14:40:54 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Paul Mather Cc: "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing ext. USB disk to UEFI boot Message-ID: Reply-To: Matthias Apitz Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mather , "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <9E39CC23-F507-428E-9B03-C0BE482BAE84@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <9E39CC23-F507-428E-9B03-C0BE482BAE84@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT 1400094 (amd64) X-message-flag: Mails in HTML will not be read! Send only plain text. X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 212.222.85.178 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:42730, ipnet:178.254.0.0/19, country:DE] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4V9Lnm22ZXz453B El día jueves, abril 04, 2024 a las 08:05:22 -0400, Paul Mather escribió: > > I will by a new USB disk and start vom scratch and also with the above > > values. > > > I would also suggest that before trying that you just perform a standard install of FreeBSD onto the new USB disk and see whether the resulting partition table it lays down becomes visible to the new laptop. That would be a method that's easily reproducible in the future. > Yes, I will use bsdinstall(8) to let it create the disk layout on da0. First, I will do one last test and copy also /boot/boot1.efi into the efi partition as /EFI/BOOT/BOOT1.efi because the man page of boot1.efi(8) says that some system can not use loader.efi(8) directly. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub