BIOS vs UEFI - more re-newbie advice please!
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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(2) If I configure the 540 to boot from BIOS, it finds the disk and boots just fine.The Handbook is perhaps a bit out of date on this as it assumes BIOS, with a nod towards the possibility of UEFI.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.
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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(2) If I configure the 540 to boot from BIOS, it finds the disk and boots just fine.The Handbook is perhaps a bit out of date on this as it assumes BIOS, with a nod towards the possibility of UEFI.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.
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.
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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
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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
...and at long last: it wasn't a bug, it wasn't bad documentation, it wasn't BSD's fault in any way. The 540 in the 12+2 configuration has 12 drive slots on the front and 2 on the rear. Turns out that something, I have no idea what, means that while a SATA drive is recognised for boot (with UEFI) in the rear 2 plane, a SAS drive is not. It's a Weird Hardware Thing, and not something FreeBSD or the excellent handbook could, or should, ever have known about.
Now I'm off sorting out VNET jails to run Nextcloud.
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