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  1. J

    Does Freebsd support direct UEFI booting?

    The Freebsd Handbook, section 12.2 on the boot process, contains a note that seems to state that Freebsd does not support direct UEFI booting. The concern is that on our two Freebsd machines, the BIOS are set for UEFI. The note reads: Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks in advance.
  2. Petr Fischer

    Solved Replacing failed disk in ZFS (bootable) mirror - how to recover bootsector

    Hello, I have simple ZFS mirror from 2 disks. Contains zroot. Is bootable (GPT). 1) ZFS mirror was created during FreeBSD installation - I assume, that installer wrote proper gpt bootsector to both disks, so when one disk die in the future, system can boot from second disk - is this true? 2)...
  3. SeaKnight

    Non bootable hard drive partitions

    Hello. I have recently setup FreeBSD on virtual box for the first time and am now trying to install it to my laptop; I want to dual boot it with Windows 10. So, I boot into FreeBSD and go to select the empty partition I made for it only to see this: I have had nothing but issues since EUFI...
  4. MMacD

    Solved Replacing a drive in a 3-way mirror?

    According to a post elsewhere by Phoenix, replacing a drive in a ZFS mirror is simple: # zpool attach <poolname> <old drive> <new drive> <wait for resilver to complete> # zpool detach <poolname> <old drive> But do I have to pass the drive through GPT first to create the scheme and partition...
  5. jstln

    Adding TrueOS to FreeBSD Bootloader

    Hi. My machine is a 64bit with GPT partition table and NO UEFI support. I created 50GB partition and gave it to trueos in install. the installation create a zpool and all it wanted on that automatically. Now is there a way to add TrueOS entry to FreeBSD boot loader which is installed on the next...
  6. Areeb Qaisar

    Format to UFS2 using newfs, in installation

    Hello, I have a UEFI System with GPT Partition Table. During the installation of FreeBSD 11, I need to format a partition to UFS2. The FreeBSD installer does not allows to format an existing partition. It instead only allows to create a new partition, which will be then be formatted. Is...
  7. E

    FreeBSD 10.2 Install with GPT and GMIRROR

    Hello, I have recently hit a snare with a recent installation and was hoping that I might be able to get some help here. I understand that GPT and gmirror do not get along, however there is a work around that had currently worked for me on 9.0. This no longer works for me and I was wondering...
  8. C

    GPT Rejected - how to wipe for ZFS?

    I'm setting up a RAIDZ2 pool on a NAS I've built and I have one disk throwing the "GPT Invalid or corrupt" error. As I understand it, I can use ZFS on raw disks without partitioning and would prefer, if possible, to just remove the partition table on this disk (or all of my disks, for that...
  9. master-richie

    root zfs install on FreeBSD 9.2 with gpt - clarity needed

    I have a G5 HP server I decided to repurpose as a local Drush / Drupal development machine. I decided against using hardware raid considering the age of the server hardware vs. the brand new 1tb SAS drives I just installed - in case the server hard fails I want my drives to be portable to...
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