CloverEFIBoot (was Re: Call for Testing: UEFI Changes)

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 11/04/2018 11:53, Lucas Holt wrote:
> Machines don’t need to be old to have issues. I have a two year old asus am3+ board that cant boot from gpt without secure boot enabled and is hard coded for Microsoft keys
>
> Lucas Holt

Interesting. Not sure Clover would help there though, secure boot is a  
different issue:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/SecureBoot

Cheers,

Pedro.

>> On Apr 11, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Hi;
>>>
>>> FWIW, I use a very old PC of the type where the processor will not be fixed
>>> by Intel and that still needs support for the traditional BIOS. I also
>>> bought a 3TB HD (they were easier to find that 2T).
>>>
>>> If I leave the disk dedicated to FreeBSD it recognizes the complete 3TB and
>>> will happily use ZFS for everything, however I want to dual boot so after
>>> lots of testing I ended up ignoring 1 TB of HD :(.
>>>
>>> It does happen that there is a really nice boot loader that could have saved
>>> the day but it is very difficult to install standalone:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot
>>>
>>> Just in case someone has the time and inclination to play with it :)
>>>
>>> Pedro.
>> Is the issue due to using MBR partitioning?  FreeBSD supports booting
>> from a GPT partition from a traditional BIOS; you don't need EFI.  Is
>> this machine so old that its BIOS doesn't support booting from GPT?
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