UEFI boot on 10.0 STABLE?

[David Benfell]

Hi all,

The way I'm booting into FreeBSD right now is far from ideal. For what it's  
worth, this is an Asus X202e notebook.

What I'm doing now is using a Debian kFreeBSD disk to get to grub. It has  
an option to boot from the first hard disk. That's literally all I need to  
boot FreeBSD. I'm presently using legacy BIOS emulation to boot the  
kFreeBSD disk but its a GPT disk.

I also needed legacy mode to boot the FreeBSD installation disk so I could  
even install FreeBSD.

I did create an additional EFI partition at the beginning of the disk,  
modifying the default install.

What I'm seeing now looks kind of like a chicken-and-egg problem. I tried  
installing grub-efi-amd64 but it fails to work the appropriate magic and  
cast the appropriate spell. I suspect because the disk is GPT running under  
legacy mode.

I also tried rEFInd which has helped enormously with previous linux  
installations. No joy this time.

I've now blown both grub-efi and rEFInd away on the theory that I need to  
start fresh.

It looks like code to deal with UEFI has been merged in to HEAD (a  
statement that doesn't actually mean all that much to me) and I *am* at  
this moment trying to upgrade from 10.0 RELEASE to STABLE. Is needed code  
in STABLE (and not in RELEASE)?

Has anyone found a path through this? Where/what is it? Should I just wait  
for 10.1?

Thanks!

-- 
David Benfell
See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you do not understand the  
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