Right now is possible to modify bootable partition type to
non-bootable type without getting warning from partedit.
Example: if you auto parition drive for arm64, you will
get freebsd-ufs as bootable partition; now you are able
to change bootable partition type to freebsd-zfs; there
will be no warning and the system will install but
will not be bootable afterwards.
After this fix, partedit will issue the same warning it
does when user attempts to create bootable partition of
not supported type, notyfing a user about incoming
problem and allowing to think the decision over before
commiting the schema.
This has been tested on amd64 and arm64.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Submitted by: Dominik Ermel <der@semihalf.com>
Sponsored by: Cavium
Reviewed by: nwhitehorn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6879
A larger EFI file system size will facilitate multi-boot configurations
and the installation other EFI applications like firmware update tools.
200MB matches OS X.
Note that this changes only the partition size, not the file system that
bsdinstall places there. We need to do both, but as the partition size
is difficult to adjust later make this change for now so that at least
systems installed with FreeBSD 11.0 have a partition layout with room
to grow.
Reviewed by: allanjude, imp
Approved by: re (gjb)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6935
The POSIX version of basename() doesn't use a 'const char *' argument;
the function may overwrite its input buffer. Instead of copying the
input string, let's just simplify this code by using our getprogname()
function that already returns the name of the application in the right
format.
Reviewed by: allanjude
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6094
For Lenovo laptops with buggy bios (x220, t420, t520):
Write the 0xee entry into the second slot in the pmbr instead of the first
For some Dell and HP models:
The BIOS gives a warning message when booting in legacy mode from a GPT partitioned disk where the 0xee partition in the pmbr is not flagged active
For models known to have this problem, mark the pmbr active during installation
Use smbios data to identify machines known to be affected by any of the above, and offer the user the option to apply the workaround
In bsdinstall's ufs auto mode (autopart partition wizard):
Allow users to select which type of partition table to use
Keep current defaults: MBR for BIOS, GPT for UEFI
This allows users to choose GPT for legacy boot if they wish
PR: 184910
PR: 194359
Reviewed by: Michael Dexter
Approved by: marcel
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-With: r285594
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3091
Off by default, build behaves normally.
WITH_META_MODE we get auto objdir creation, the ability to
start build from anywhere in the tree.
Still need to add real targets under targets/ to build packages.
Differential Revision: D2796
Reviewed by: brooks imp
assume that GPT means UEFI boot, resulting in the installation of
uninstallable systems. This needs a little more work before MFC, in
particular based on disk size (> 2 TB + BIOS + MBR is not workable). That
will come soon.
partitions of types other than "freebsd-boot" (in particular, "efi").
This allows the removal of some nasty hacks for supporting PowerPC systems,
in particular aliasing freebsd-boot to apple-boot on APM and an IBM-specific
code on MBR.
This changes the installer to use the correct names, which also breaks a
degeneracy in the meaning of "freebsd-boot" that allows the addition
of support for some newer IBM systems that can boot from GPT in addition to
MBR. Since I have no idea how to detect which those systems are, leave
the default on IBM PPC systems as MBR for now.
a sysctl to determine what firmware is in use. This sysctl does not exist
yet, so the following blocks are in front of the wheels:
- I've provisionally called this "hw.platform" after the equivalent thing
on PPC
- The logic to check the sysctl is short-circuited to always choose BIOS.
There's a comment in the top of the file about how to turn this off.
If IA64 acquired a boot1.efifat-like thing (probably with very few
modifications), the same code could be adapted there.
commit c1acf022c5
Author: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Fri Jan 17 21:46:44 2014 +0000
Add an option WITHOUT_NCURSESW to suppress building and linking to
libncursesw. While wide character support it useful we'd like to
only need one ncurses library on embedded systems.
MFC after: 4 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
This is a workaround, as for unknown yet reason the keys binded on the Partition Edition window are the one from partlist instead of the one from standard "formfield"
Reported by: alfred, nwhitehorn
type. GEOM provider names can't duplicate (or shouldn't -- devfs will either
break or only use the first one if they do) so using the first provider
by that name is a sufficient check. This also lets the scripted partitioner
install onto gmirror and geli and such things.
will come soon. This lets the install process have a line like:
bsdinstall scriptedpart 'ada0 GPT {1.5G freebsd-ufs /, 10G freebsd-swap,
auto freebsd-ufs /usr}'
to set up a system with a 1.5GB /, some swap space, and a /usr using the
rest of ada0.
MFC after: 1 month
