Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-06 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 2018-07-06 04:17, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < > > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > >> > On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> > > >> > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > >> > >> On 5 Jul 2018, at

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-06 Thread Emmanuel Vadot
On 2018-07-06 09:34, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 6 Jul 2018, at 6:34, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: FAT12 can work with all EFI implementation, the problem is the size of the FAT12 part that sometimes causes problems. Ok, now that we are all on the same page, changing it to newfs_msdos -F 32 did not

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-06 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 6 Jul 2018, at 6:34, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: FAT12 can work with all EFI implementation, the problem is the size of the FAT12 part that sometimes causes problems. Ok, now that we are all on the same page, changing it to newfs_msdos -F 32 did not make a change to my problem of the boot

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-06 Thread Emmanuel Vadot
On 2018-07-06 04:17, Warner Losh wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > >> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: > >> >

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > > >> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: > > >> > > >>> FAT12 isn't good for UEFI.

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > >> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: > >> > >>> FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32. > >> > >> We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as > >> well

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb < bzeeb-li...@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: > On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] >> >>> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: >>> >>> FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32.

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 5 Jul 2018, at 18:18, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32. We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as well at

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Warner Losh
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 12:55 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: > > > FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32. > > We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as > well at https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI > > I

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: > > > FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32. > > We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as > well at https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI IIRC FreeBSD

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:19, Warner Losh wrote: FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32. We use it for the default image we built and the wiki suggests it as well at https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI I wonder where this “default” came from? /bz

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Warner Losh
FAT12 isn't good for UEFI. Use FAT16 or FAT32. Warner On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 9:32 AM Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > Hi, > > while I can boot memstick images just fine (which are created using > makefs/mkimg), doing the same thing using gpart/newfs_msdos -F 12/.. I > am not able to get anything that

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread David Mimms
Bjoern, I had this problem earlier this week while using FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180628-r335760-memstick.img on my ThinkPad P50. I had used `dd` to place the img file on a partition (e.g. /dev/sdb1) of the USB pen drive and it wouldn't boot properly. After I used `dd` to place the img on

Re: EFI booting from external USB pen drive

2018-07-05 Thread Emmanuel Vadot
On 2018-07-05 16:30, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: Hi, while I can boot memstick images just fine (which are created using makefs/mkimg), doing the same thing using gpart/newfs_msdos -F 12/.. I am not able to get anything that boots. What is the size for the fat12 partition ? Everything over ~30MB