Hi,
I've heard that FreeBSD has a superior stability and harmony among its various components compared to Linux so I've been trying to set things up so I can give it a go as my primary OS for a while. Unfortunately, on my main laptop (HP Envy 17) which has UEFI firmware and a GPT partition table the FreeBSD installer (for FreeBSD 11.2) is having trouble creating a EFI and UFS partition. I took some pictures of what I saw on my PC during the file system set up process and the best of them is attached. If it helps I've also attached what running:
on my openSUSE Tumbleweed (Linux) installation shows. As you can see I have quite a few Linux distros installed alongside. The last two partitions (the EFi and FreeBSD UFS) partitions were set up by the installer.
If anyone has a fix for this I'll much appreciate it and I'll provide whatever further information you require, if I can.
I've managed to install FreeBSD 11.2 pretty problem free to virtual machines with BIOS, a MBR partition table and a Linux distribution installed alongside. I've also managed this with one of my old laptops with BIOS/MBR, so this seems to be a GPT/EFI issues, either that or a mere coincidence that for some other reason this PC is being difficult.
Thanks for your time,
Brenton
I've heard that FreeBSD has a superior stability and harmony among its various components compared to Linux so I've been trying to set things up so I can give it a go as my primary OS for a while. Unfortunately, on my main laptop (HP Envy 17) which has UEFI firmware and a GPT partition table the FreeBSD installer (for FreeBSD 11.2) is having trouble creating a EFI and UFS partition. I took some pictures of what I saw on my PC during the file system set up process and the best of them is attached. If it helps I've also attached what running:
Code:
cfdisk /dev/sda
on my openSUSE Tumbleweed (Linux) installation shows. As you can see I have quite a few Linux distros installed alongside. The last two partitions (the EFi and FreeBSD UFS) partitions were set up by the installer.
If anyone has a fix for this I'll much appreciate it and I'll provide whatever further information you require, if I can.
I've managed to install FreeBSD 11.2 pretty problem free to virtual machines with BIOS, a MBR partition table and a Linux distribution installed alongside. I've also managed this with one of my old laptops with BIOS/MBR, so this seems to be a GPT/EFI issues, either that or a mere coincidence that for some other reason this PC is being difficult.
Thanks for your time,
Brenton