From nobody Sun Jun 25 23:58:21 2023 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Qq7Jd0Xvjz4hp5W for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from holger.sebert@mailbox.org) Received: from mout-p-202.mailbox.org (mout-p-202.mailbox.org [80.241.56.172]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Qq7Jb4Vlwz41Tw for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from holger.sebert@mailbox.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=mailbox.org header.s=mail20150812 header.b=mXAJzRzI; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of holger.sebert@mailbox.org designates 80.241.56.172 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=holger.sebert@mailbox.org; dmarc=pass (policy=reject) header.from=mailbox.org Received: from smtp102.mailbox.org (smtp102.mailbox.org [10.196.197.102]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-384) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mout-p-202.mailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Qq7JW2XWMz9sW7 for ; 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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MBO-RS-ID: 81b09cebff945f77375 X-MBO-RS-META: c8t4b1q6ns3489rks9iejgojry363zga X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.07 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.97)[-0.972]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[mailbox.org,reject]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:80.241.56.0/21]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[mailbox.org:s=mail20150812]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[80.241.56.172:from]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:199118, ipnet:80.241.56.0/21, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[mailbox.org:+]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[mailbox.org:dkim]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Qq7Jb4Vlwz41Tw X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 6/25/23 19:55, Patrick Mahan wrote: > 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 Sounds like you have pre-installed Windows on your new Pavillion machine. Do you need/want it? If no, then I would suggest simply wiping all that cruft and go with the FreeBSD's installer defaults (either UFS of ZFS). Best, Holger