branch 9 and uefi

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

let me make it very short.

UEFI worked for me during my first installation on a UEFI machine. I moved then to 10 and still have no problems.

So, if you really fail, install CURRENT and it will work.

Of course you are not running then a release system with all the consequences.

Erich
On Friday 20 July 2012 11:48:32 Thomas Mueller wrote:
> from Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs>:
> 
> > It took me by surprise. The mobo I have on my mind for
> > new desktop has uefi instead of bios. It is asus m5a97,
> > with 970 chipset, well priced among users on the net.
> > How would it behave with 9.1? After all reading, I plan
> > to boot it as memory stick and go with simple "guided"
> > install. Someone could comment on the topic?
> > At the moment, I see I have to avoid manual partition
> > and mbr. Or not?
> > If it sounds bad, any other option for motherboard and
> > amd 8120 cpu?
> 
> G�t Andrفs <andrej at antiszoc.hu> responded:
> 
> > I had a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.2 on an IBM X3550M3 which is also
> > an UEFI maniac one. I could only boot FreeBSD from an USB DVD and
> > install it from there. Maybe some legacy fallback boot options are
> > availabe for this mobo. I think they have its user manual on their
> > website.
> 
> I installed FreeBSD last summer (2011) on a UEFI system, beginning with 9.0-BETA1 after having big problems with NetBSD.
> 
> My hard drive is Western Digital Caviar Green 3 TB, practically forcing me to use GPT as opposed to MBR.
> 
> I was able to boot, and remain able to boot using System Rescue CD (sysresccd.org) and selecting the Super Grub Disk from menus.
> 
> Then I can boot as described in /usr/ports/sysutils/grub2 , which is where I got that information.
> 
> You don't say how big your hard drive is, and if you want to run any OS besides FreeBSD.
> 
> You can go into the guided installer to see what it wants to do but are better off selecting partition sizes outside the guided installer.
> 
> bsdinstall's boot partition is useful if you run FreeBSD as the only OS on the hard disk, as I have done successfully installing FreeBSD to a USB stick.
> 
> I was able to boot the FreeBSD installer USB stick using the memstick image, and am able to boot the USB-stick FreeBSD installations I've created.
> 
> Tom
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