Do I get this right: from now on (or from some time ago really) FreeBSD 11-CURRENT memsticks for AMD64 would never boot on hardware that does not support UEFI BIOS? Only i386 memsticks will not require EFI boot, right?
I believe I read (elsewhere on these forums) that the separate UEFI and legacy images were just a temporary thing for 10.1, and that in the future they would be combined into a single image. I believe that post also said that the 10.1 UEFI images were actually universal, but didn't get enough testing that the release team was willing to say that they definitely worked everywhere.Do I get this right: from now on (or from some time ago really) FreeBSD 11-CURRENT memsticks for AMD64 would never boot on hardware that does not support UEFI BIOS? Only i386 memsticks will not require EFI boot, right?
I've been burning FreeBSD images on CDs and DVDs for eleven years now, it just seems to me that it's time to stop using this old media when we can have something faster, smaller and not requireing a separate drive (which is now not common at all by the way).Well I just performed a fresh install on an old [non UEFI] spare I had lying around from a 2015-02-23 DVD (boot only, and disk1). I had no trouble with the booting, nor the install. So if you seem to be having trouble with the images (memstick) variety. There's nothing to writing a DVD image to a memstick/flashdrive. They even provide instructions in the README, and in the install instructions within the FreeBSD documentation. All in all, it just requires a little more time up front.
--Chris
Sure, fair enough. But seems to me, if you're having difficulty using one type of (install) medium, and someone indicates that the other (install) medium works. That one might choose the alternate method to install.I've been burning FreeBSD images on CDs and DVDs for eleven years now, it just seems to me that it's time to stop using this old media when we can have something faster, smaller and not requireing a separate drive (which is now not common at all by the way).
I agree USB flash media is convenient for installing however, while it may be true a lot of laptop computers and small appliances as of late don't come with CD/DVD drives, I don't think that holds true for desktop and workstation PCs yet.I've been burning FreeBSD images on CDs and DVDs for eleven years now, it just seems to me that it's time to stop using this old media when we can have something faster, smaller and not requireing a separate drive (which is now not common at all by the way).