<![CDATA[BIOS vs UEFI - more re-newbie advice please!]]>Gentlefolk,

I brought myself back up to speed on FreeBSD by installing it on a T430 - ZFS and pkg install worked beautifully. Got Wayfire working, set up a jail to run a Luanti (Minetest) server. So far so good.

Now I'm working on the real challenge, bringing up a Poweredge R540 which will have raid-3 ZFS and many jails. And my first problem is right at the very beginning. I can install FreeBSD (15.0) from a USB stick just fine, but when I try to get the machine to boot...

(1) If I configure the 540 to boot from UEFI it cannot find the boot disk.
(2) If I configure the 540 to boot from BIOS, it finds the disk and boots just fine.

The Handbook is perhaps a bit out of date on this as it assumes BIOS, with a nod towards the possibility of UEFI. I'm guessing this problem has been solved many times over - could someone point me towards the solution?

Many thanks,

---WBTD.

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/209/bios-vs-uefi-more-re-newbie-advice-pleaseRSS for NodeSun, 31 May 2026 17:20:38 GMTThu, 28 May 2026 18:25:22 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to BIOS vs UEFI - more re-newbie advice please! on Sat, 30 May 2026 18:02:46 GMT]]>Ah, okay. It's a known bug. I was doing everything right.

I don't have a way to recompile so I'll have to wait until 5.1-release. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291461

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/564https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/564Sat, 30 May 2026 18:02:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to BIOS vs UEFI - more re-newbie advice please! on Fri, 29 May 2026 07:41:32 GMT]]>right, chewing through my own problem, found the good UEFI page on the Wiki. It doesn't cover using ZFS rather than UFS, but I'll start from that and if I can get each step right I'll document it. Back in a while.

]]>https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/553https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/553Fri, 29 May 2026 07:41:32 GMT