Currently, the installer uses pre-created 800KB FAT12 filesystems that
it dd's onto the ESP partition.
This changeset improves that by having the installer generate a FAT32
filesystem directly onto the ESP using newfs_msdos and then copying
loader.efi into /EFI/freebsd.
For live installs it then runs efibootmgr to add a FreeBSD boot entry
in the BIOS.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17947
A good number of BIOSes have trouble booting from GPT in non-UEFI mode.
This is commonly reported with Lenovo desktops and laptops (including
X220, X230, T430, and E31) and Dell systems. Although UEFI is the
preferred amd64 boot method on recent hardware, older hardware does not
support UEFI, a user may wish to boot via BIOS/CSM, and some systems
that support UEFI fail to boot FreeBSD via UEFI (such as an old
AMD FX-6100 that I have).
With this change amd64 memsticks remain dual-mode (booting from either
UEFI or CSM); the partitioning type is just switched from GPT to MBR.
The "vestigial swap partition" in the GPT scheme was added in r265017 to
work around some issue with loader's GPT support, so we should not need
it when using MBR.
There is some concern that future UEFI systems may not boot from MBR,
but I am not aware of any today. In any case the likely path forward
for our installers is to migrate to CD/USB combo images, and if it
becomes necessary introduce a separate memstick specifically for the
MBR BIOS/CSM case.
PR: 227954
Reviewed by: gjb, imp, tsoome
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15599
This makes it easier to identify the individual partition types and
facilitates comparisons across architectures.
Reviewed by: gjb
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
There's not much practical difference as far as install media is
concerned but newfs creates UFSv2 by default and it is sensible to use
the contemporary UFS version.
I also intend to change makefs to create UFSv2 by default (to match
newfs) so we'll want make-memstick.sh to be explicit, rather than
relying on the host tool's default.
Reviewed by: andrew, gjb, jhibbits
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12231
This Makefile relies on Makefile.fat providing the correct value for
BOOT1_MAXSIZE and BOOT1_OFFSET. Since BOOT1_OFFSET had no default value
here the build would already fail if Makefile.fat did not provide
correct values.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Also remove the now-redundant error handling that was only for makefs.
This change applies arm64's r308171 to the other make-memstick.sh
versions.
Reviewed by: gjb
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12195
the root filesystem read-write. This causes problems booting
the memstick installation medium from write-protected USB flash
drives.
Submitted by: A.J. Kehoe IV [1], Oliver Jones [2]
PR: 187161 [1], 205886 [2]
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Restore make-memstick.sh back to its original state to
unbreak booting for machines that do not support GPT.
I have in-progress work to keep the MBR layout and add
the EFI partition, but it is not yet ready, and does
need at least one full release build to be certain it
does not break.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Indent 1 full tab where needed
- Use $() for shell exec
- Insert a space between '$(( ))' parens
MFC After: 1 week
X-MFC-With: r264907
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
dedicated' partition scheme, reported to cause the memstick.img
to fail to boot.
Similar to how make-memstick.sh worked on stable/8, use makefs(8)
to create the actual filesystem. Then calculate the size of the
resulting image file, create the GPT partition scheme, then dd(1)
the filesystem created with makefs(8) to the freebsd-ufs GPT
partition.
This was tested on a known-working machine[1] for regression, and
a known-not-working machine[2] to ensure the boot issue has been
resolved.
Testers: myself [1], db [2]
MFC After: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
makes booting more reliable (and working at all on USB sticks). While here,
move responsibility for setting up fstab into the various platform mk-*.sh
scripts.
Suggested by: many
i386 and amd64. This involved moving the memstick generation script to
the arch directories from scripts/, in analogy to mkisoimages.sh. This
script was never called from /usr/src/release/Makefile, so that hasn't
been updated.
2011-03-13 01:38:24 +00:00
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