10.1 Installation on Acer ES1 111 with emmc ssd

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Hi *,

I just bought a new Acer E11 111M C56A with 32GB eMMC disc. Unfortunately FreeBSD completely ignores this disc during installation step autoconfigure ZFS. Actually I just bought this machine to have a nice FreeBSD only "workstation", mostly CLI based, to play around and get familiar with the system. Any advices how I could get this up and running? Otherwise I have to install Linux, which kind of bores me currently...

Some Background:
x64 Installer boots fine in Legacy mode from external USB DVD.

Any hints appreciated.

Thanks,

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tetragir

Feb 9, 2015

#2

Hello,

Is there any specific requirement to use ZFS? I guess you could give a try to UFS.

tetragir

OP

2

23r0

Feb 9, 2015

Thread Starter
#3

Ok - I forgot to mention that I also tried UFS auto configure. No fun either...

tetragir

Feb 9, 2015

#4

Is there a specific error message you could paste?
Or does "ignoring" means, that the installer shows no disks?

wblock@

Developer

Feb 9, 2015

#5

Not all MMC devices are supported by the mmc(4) driver, so it might not see that memory at all. I'd refer this question to the mailing lists, maybe freebsd-questions.

OP

2

23r0

Feb 9, 2015

Thread Starter
#6

The installer shows no discs at all.
For ZFS autoconfigure:

Code:

{{{
stripe: 0 disks
- Rescan Device *
- Disk Info *
}}}

For UFS autoconfigure directly stops with the following error message:

Code:

Partitioning error - An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart...

Manual Disk Setup also stops directly with:

Code:

Partitioning error - An installation step has been aborted. Would you like to restart...

I thought that I could maybe manually add a missing driver with a shell or load an appropriate kernel module to be able to detect the device?

Thanks,

w.

OP

2

23r0

Feb 9, 2015

Thread Starter
#7

wblock@ said:
Not all MMC devices are supported by the mmc(4) driver, so it might not see that memory at all. I'd refer this question to the mailing lists, maybe freebsd-questions.

Ok - I'll try that. Thanks.

OP

2

23r0

Mar 1, 2015

Thread Starter
#8

OK - seems like there is no driver for this emmc device. But I found a solution: USB-3.0 USB Slim-Stick. Even faster then my internal EMMC, good enough for some experiments.