Upgrading boot from GPT(BIOS) to GPT(UEFI)

Eugene M. Zheganin emz at norma.perm.ru
Mon Dec 19 07:28:13 UTC 2016


Hi.

On 19.12.2016 11:51, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz at norma.perm.ru> wrote:
>> I tried the UEFI boot sequence on a Supermicro server. It boots only
>> manually, gives some cryptic error while booting automatically. When
>> entering the path to the EFI loader in a appearing prompt - it boots
>> fine, but this kills the idea.
>>
>> I've written a message here about this, so far nobody answered (August,
>> 14th, "FreeBSD doesn't boot automatically from UEFI").
>>
>> Now it runs on gptzfsboot again, so ....
> Which SuperMicro board? Our X9's have big issues with UEFI (though
> some versions of the boards seem to work). The X10's are rock solid.
>
The affected server has X9SCL/X9SCM, yup. Is there some workaround to
this, like flashing newer BIOS ?

Eugene.


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