Re: Installing to a GPT partition

2020-04-07 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 07:46:47 +0800, you wrote: >PFSes were created for the HAMMER1 installation and have been deprecated for >sometime. > >If one really needs PFSes, they can always create one later manually. > >>I assume the separate /boot partition is still required when booting >>via UEFI, or

Re: Installing to a GPT partition

2020-03-30 Thread Aaron LI
On March 31, 2020 4:15:18 AM GMT+08:00, Gerald Henriksen wrote: >On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:02:55 +0200, you wrote: > >Thank you for the pointers. > >>The other partitions you can >>install as described on gpt(8). > >Looking at that, and looking at the results of my vm installation, I >note there is

Re: Installing to a GPT partition

2020-03-30 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:02:55 +0200, you wrote: Thank you for the pointers. >The other partitions you can >install as described on gpt(8). Looking at that, and looking at the results of my vm installation, I note there is no instructions about creating any PFS's. Does this matter? I assume the

Re: Installing to a GPT partition

2020-03-27 Thread karu.pruun
You need to put the DragonFly efi boot image /boot/boot1.efi on your ESP partition (which is just a FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32 partition). If you are only booting DragonFly, then copy this image to the ESP as follows: EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI It will be the default boot image for UEFI. If you want to

Installing to a GPT partition

2020-03-27 Thread Gerald Henriksen
So a hard drive upgrade means there is no longer an old style drive, which it appears installing Dragonfly in the GPT/EFI world is currently an adventure. The relevant partitions (using Linux descriptions) that I would like to use are: /dev/sda8 - EFI /dev/sda9 - main Dragonfly /dev/sdc5 - a