Attempting to install on RPi4B w/ UEFI, having some problems

[greg at unrelenting.technology]

September 11, 2020 2:42 PM, "Robert Clausecker" <fuz at fuz.su> wrote:

>> On 2020-Sep-10, at 13:11, Robert Clausecker <fuz at fuz.su> wrote:
>> FYI: I use GPT partitioning. (No claim that you need to.)
> 
> Ah, good to know that that works. I was afraid the UEFI code
> required an MBR scheme as the documentation indicated such.

EDK2 UEFI not supporting GPT would be *very* weird.
I'm pretty sure the documentation was referring to the RPi early firmware.

Maybe the update that added pure-USB boot added GPT support there as well!

> But it appears that loading the DTB from the UEFI boot loader is not
> supported at all. In fact, when I configure UEFI to generate a DTB
> only (ACPI off), the kernel hangs during boot.

Well that might be a FreeBSD side problem.