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 <[email protected]>: > > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
