Looking for some guidance
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 17:55:13 UTC
I run my own domain which lost its main server (hardware issue) about two weeks ago right as I was leaving for a two week family vacation. While I was gone, I ordered a new HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-3055xt as a replacement and bought from FreeBSD Mall the 13.2 AMD64 DVD. The Pavilion is running UEFI, but oddly it wasn't recognizing the DVD as a boot media until I went into the boot menu at startup and specifically selected the DVD drive. I also noticed that there was also the "Windows Boot Manager" listed which it seemed UEFI was default. The Pavilion came with a 500G SSD and a 2T HD. It seems that Windows OS has been installed on the SSD leaving the HD as available storage. I have also installed the system disk from the old server (1T HD) but it was formatted for the old bios (no UEFI boot partitions). After I booted up the FreeBSD DVD and entered shell mode I see (using gpart show) that nvd0 (SSD) shows the following partitions: efi (260M) ms-reserved (16M) ms-basic-data (476G) ms-recovery (5.3M) The ada0 drive is my old system disk with the following partitions: freebsd-ufs (/) (50G) swap (16G) freebsd-ufs (/var) (100G) freebsd-ufs (/tmp) (100G) freebsd-ufs (/usr) (200G) freebsd-ufs (/home) (465G) The ada1 drive is the 2TB with the following partitions: ms-basic-data (1.8T) So my questions are - 1) What the heck is this "Windows Boot Manager" and can I use it or must I destroy it? 2) Do I need to add the loader.efi to the efi directory on nvd0? 3) Can I mount nvd0? What mount type (FAT32?) do I use? That should get me over my first hump. My current plan is to install to the 2T hard drive and use the old system disk as a reference point to retrieve my DNS/Mail/Firewall stuff. Thanks for any help, Patrick