The Dell Precision Tower 5810 fails to boot from GPT in Legacy/BIOS mode
without the Active flag in the Protective MBR. Suggest the workaround
during installation.
Since an increasing number of Dell systems exhibit this behavior,
I imagine all Dells past a certain date will do so. I would like
to suggest the workaround for all Dells with a BIOS date of, say,
2014 or later, but I would need to test a variety of systems before
committing such a change.
Reviewed by: allanjude, dteske
MFC after: 5 days
Relnotes: We should probably suggest using GPT+Active on "recent" Dells.
Sponsored by: Dell Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4075
- Rework MANIFEST generation and parsing via bsdinstall(8).
- Allow selecting debugging distribution sets during install.
- Rework bsdinstall(8) to fetch remote debug distribution sets
when they are not available on the local install medium.
- Allow selecting additional non-GENERIC kernels during install.
At present, GENERIC is still required, and installed by default.
Tested with: head@r293203
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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
A variable was misspelled resulting in chmod executing on the installer instead of on the target chroot
PR: 191402
Submitted by: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
Approved by: brueffer
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3061
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
A new loader.conf(5) option of geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" will now
allow you to enter your geli(8) root-mount credentials prior to invoking
the kernel.
See check-password.4th(8) for details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
Reviewed by: imp, kmoore
Discussed on: -current
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Relnotes: yes
Summary:
Add "GELI Passphrase:" prompt to boot loader.
A new loader.conf(5) option of geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES" will now
allow you to enter your geli(8) root-mount credentials prior to invoking
the kernel.
See check-password.4th(8) for details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
Reviewed by: (your name[s] here)
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-to: stable/10
Relnotes: yes
Test Plan:
Drop a head copy of check-password.4th into /boot and then apply the patch
(only the patch to /boot/check-password.4th is required; no other changes are
required but you do have to have a HEAD copy of check-password.4th to
apply the patch).
NB: The rest of your /boot files can be up to 2 years old but no older.
NB: The test won't work unless your kernel has the following change
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273489
Now, put into /boot/loader.conf:
geom_eli_passphrase_prompt="YES"
and reboot.
You should be prompted for a GELI passphrase before the menu (if enabled),
just after loading loader.conf(5).
NB: It doesn't matter if you're using GELI or not. However if you are using
GELI and a sufficiently new enough release (has SVN r273489) and you entered
the proper passphrase to mount your GELI encrypted root device(s), you should
notice that the boot process did not stop (you went from loader all the way to login).
Reviewers: cperciva, allanjude, scottl, kmoore
Subscribers: jkh, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2105
bsdconfig's f_package_add doesn't seem to support using the pkg repo from /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, it also tries to run the commands on the installer image, not in the destination chroot
Instead, manually bootstrap pkg in the chroot, and then install the requested packages (in the chroot)
Doesn't use pkg -c, because pkg is not installed on the installer image
PR: 196250
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2026
Approved by: bapt
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Previously we used gnop(8) to fake 4K sector size disks but ZFS now has a
sysctl to control this when creating new top level vdev's so use that
instead.
Differential Revision: D566
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Multiplay
ZFS property canmount=off so that /var/db/pkg and other such directories
are part of the / dataset, and only /var/mail, /var/log, and /var/crash
are excluded from the ZFS boot environment (beadm).
PR: 193971
Approved by: jmg
MFC after: ASAP
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
reality. In particular, draw a connection between the auto ZFS script and
the auto UFS one, since they fulfill similar functions. I'm not sure the
auto ZFS code is actually experimental anymore, so it might be worth
changing that label still.
