Need X-server to run in bhyve guest

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Tue Dec 3 08:57:40 UTC 2019


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> Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
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> > > Second, unless I select ZFS, there is no option to install on GPT+UEFI.
> > > Fine, let's install on ZFS.
> > 
> > Do you mean GPT+UFS?  
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> I mean UFS+GPT+UEFI. That means, a EFI partition should be created and
> populated by the installer, alongside with the UFS and swap partitions.
> 
> bsdinstall can create and populate the EFI partition when
> installing on ZFS, but not when installing on UFS.
> 
> > Not sure what the failure is here.  I usually
> > install MBR/(UFS or ZFS) so this is not a use case for me.
> 
> How do you create the EFI partition, manually?

I don't use bsdinstall at all, I install using make and a Makefile,
so, kinda yes, kinda no, not manual, but not bsdinstall either.

> Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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