With r325310, the UEFI boot with CURRENT should be ok with >512B sectors. The BIOS part is still work in the process. rgds, toomas > On 4 Oct 2017, at 19:32, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 2017-10-04 05:27, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> from Allan Jude: >> >>>> Anyone has any recommendations or experience about how to use native 4K >>>> disks with FreeBSD? >> >>>> --HPS >> >>> It is not possible in legacy/BIOS mode, because the BIOS calls do not >>> let you specify a sector size. >> >>> However, you SHOULD be able to boot from the 4k device using UEFI. >>> I am trying to debug a problem I am having with this on my new Mac, >>> which has a 4k NVMe disk. >> >> I've been trying to figure how to boot a FreeBSD system with UEFI as opposed to BIOS-style. >> >> I read the documentation, but want to boot a partition that might not be the first BSD partition on the hard disk. >> >> For instance, some UFS partitions might have a NetBSD installation, a different FreeBSD installation, or no OS installation. >> >> I read the man page (uefi) and looked at the files in /boot; have an EFI partition set up with more than enough space. >> >> I would also want to be able to boot other UEFI-capable OSes including Linux, NetBSD (if that works), and Haiku when and if possible. >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >> > > In this case, You likely want to install a tool like rEFInd, which will > draw a menu of all of the installed OSes and let you pick. > > I use this in two of my laptops, one dual boots freebsd and windows, and > the other OS X and FreeBSD on my macbook pro > > -- > Allan Jude > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"Received on Thu Nov 02 2017 - 10:08:55 UTC
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