On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 06:08:34PM +0100, Fernando Herrero Carrón wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A few months ago I got myself a new box and I have been happily running > FreeBSD on it ever since. I noticed that the boot was not as fast as I had > expected and I've realized that, while my disk is GPT partitioned, the boot > process is still BIOS based: > > % gpart show > => 34 976773101 ada0 GPT (466G) > 34 6 - free - (3.0K) > 40 1024 1 freebsd-boot (512K) > 1064 984 - free - (492K) > 2048 67108864 2 freebsd-swap (32G) > 67110912 909662208 3 freebsd-zfs (434G) > 976773120 15 - free - (7.5K) > > I am reading uefi(8) and it looks like FreeBSD 11 should be able to boot > using UEFI straight into ZFS, so I am thinking of converting that > freebsd-boot partition to an EFI partition, creating a FAT filesystem and > copying /boot/boot.efi there. > > How good of an idea is that? Would it really be that simple or am I missing > something? My only reason for wanting to boot with UEFI is faster boot, > everything is working fine otherwise. > > Thanks in advance for your help.
I am also interesting by this case. I think expand freebsd-boot to about 1M (size of /boot/boot1.efifat), dding /boot/boot1.efifat and set to type to 'efi' may be enough. I am never tried this. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
