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pieside, BIOS implementations that support both legacy and UEFI booting are somewhat variable in quality. Check your PC or motherboard manufacturer for any UEFI firmware updates, which may include bug fixes. Can you list what other options are available in the BIOS? In terms of configuration...

Provided the FreeBSD kernel recognises your SSD it is possible to boot as you describe. If your computer uses MBR boot you can use either ZFS or UFS on the USB stick. If your computer uses UEFI boot, you must use UFS on the USB stick (at time of writing, the UEFI boot loader only supports...

I'm pleased you got your machine working, phaeton. The computing power of older machines is comparable to today's embedded systems or hobby hardware like the Raspberry Pi, so I totally agree with you that there is no need to throw out working systems. Indeed, my systems at home are typically...

I would also be interested in any recommendations for cross-platform open source backup software. Bacula (sysutils/bacula-server) had been on my list of software to try out, but I just checked and I see that the Windows client is now only available on a closed source commercial license. Another...

Similarly with the original thread title I wondered whether Oracle might have been taking development forward as closed-source (like ZFS)! I'm pleased it's just news about Bhyve progressing :)

It was to overcome the CD loader/BIOS issue that I suggested it, not because I think your CD drive is broken (you said your optical drive worked fine with GNU/Linux CDs and others). The CD bootloader is different code from the normal MBR bootloader, so if you can get around needing to boot from...

If you haven't already seen it, there is an excellent article on rc scripting: Practical rc.d scripting in BSD. Your script is fine. An alternative to using daemon would be to write your service to manage its own forking, setsiding and closing of file descriptors. rc supports running a...

Hi phaeton, welcome to the forums. I run a couple of similarly aged but adequate FreeBSD machines at home, one of them even creaking along with ZFS, so you won't hear any jeering from me. I imagine you are already running the most recently released BIOS for your motherboard but if not it would...

Hi Kalero, welcome to the forums. I agree with kpa; using the BIOS boot menu is the simplest way to achieve what you want quickly. Since it sounds like you are only getting started with FreeBSD, don't worry too much about chossing the "right" disk layout. Once you have installed FreeBSD...

Did you try the three things I suggested in my last post? I was hopeful that MBR partitioning with a slice (BSD label) and then a UFS partition underneath (ending up as /dev/da1s1a) would work. If you're not familiar with how to do any of these then just say and I'll prepare some instructions.

Welcome to the FreeBSD forums, Luzifer2222. I believe the NICs using the same driver are assigned a number depending on the order they are detected and that this cannot be configured differently. However, to address a similar issue, I make use of the functionality to rename an interface by...

abishai, vermaden: The configuration here actually boots from a UFS partition (where the kernel and other files in /boot are located), not a ZFS pool at all. For FreeBSD 10.1, the first stage UEFI boot loader only supports booting from a UFS partition.

Bucky, I'm pleased you found the HOWTO useful. Regarding choice of encryption algorithm I agree that the geli default of 128-bit AES-XTS (as configured by someone following the HOWTO instructions) is the one to choose. Before the performance improvements (see the reference from the "further...

I checked on my UEFI FreeBSD laptop and saw the same behaviour for all disks connected to my system except the disk with my FreeBSD system installed. The man page for gpart says it will show "all geoms if none are specified" but I agree the behaviour with multiple entries for some disks but not...

ANOKNUSA: I'm pleased you found the HOWTO useful even though you are not using GELI. Regarding the need for a /boot directory, the way I think about it is that the boot loaders are written for a standard system, where the kernel and related files are in the /boot directory on the root...

If I am reading the documentation correctly, the "stall" is is the recovery mode I was suggesting where you can reinstall the BIOS, but it sounds like you worked that out. I thought it was worth checking as I didn't see you mention trying recovery mode in your post on Intel Communities.

Having just looked at the source code for the first stage UEFI boot loader for failed-to-add-external-hard-disk-with-freebsd-10-1.52024, I suspect you are correct; your partitions on your hard drive are being checked for a UFS filesystem before the USB stick which is preventing you from booting...

Hmmm. So either my diagnosis is incorrect, or my assumption that the UEFI boot loader chooses the boot partition based on the GPT type is incorrect. I didn't have any ideas for a different cause, so I had a look at the source code for the UEFI boot loader. I had expected that it would examine...

At this point I am wondering whether I am more of a liability than a help, tobik :/ I hope at least Thierry Leloup will let us know whether my diagnosis is correct!