Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-11-05 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:08:49 +0200, Toomas Soome wrote: With r325310, the UEFI boot with CURRENT should be ok with >512B sectors. The BIOS part is still work in the process. I can confirm that I'm now able to boot my Macbook Pro with 4K SSD. On 4 Oct 2017, at 19:32, Allan Jude

Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-11-02 Thread Toomas Soome
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 wrote: > > On 2017-10-04 05:27, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> from Allan Jude: >> Anyone has any

Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-10-04 Thread Allan Jude
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. >

Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-10-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-10-03 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 4 Oct 2017, at 00:18, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > > Hi, > > I accidentially ordered a Sata SSD disk which diskinfo reports a sector-size > 4K instead of 512 bytes. Trying to get it to boot under FreeBSD appeared > impossible. Then I started looking into the boot0,1,2

Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-10-03 Thread Allan Jude
On 10/03/2017 17:18, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > Hi, > > I accidentially ordered a Sata SSD disk which diskinfo reports a > sector-size 4K instead of 512 bytes. Trying to get it to boot under > FreeBSD appeared impossible. Then I started looking into the boot0,1,2 > and loader and the