Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

[Yuri Pankov]

On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:08:49 +0200, Toomas Soome wrote:
> 
> With r325310, the UEFI boot with CURRENT should be ok with >512B sectors. The BIOS part is still work in the process.

I can confirm that I'm now able to boot my Macbook Pro with 4K SSD.

>> On 4 Oct 2017, at 19:32, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2017-10-04 05:27, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>> from Allan Jude:
>>>
>>>>> Anyone has any recommendations or experience about how to use native 4K
>>>>> disks with FreeBSD?
>>>
>>>>> --HPS
>>>
>>>> It is not possible in legacy/BIOS mode, because the BIOS calls do not
>>>> let you specify a sector size.
>>>
>>>> However, you SHOULD be able to boot from the 4k device using UEFI.
>>>> I am trying to debug a problem I am having with this on my new Mac,
>>>> which has a 4k NVMe disk.
>>>
>>> I've been trying to figure how to boot a FreeBSD system with UEFI as opposed to BIOS-style.
>>>
>>> I read the documentation, but want to boot a partition that might not be the first BSD partition on the hard disk.
>>>
>>> For instance, some UFS partitions might have a NetBSD installation, a different FreeBSD installation, or no OS installation.
>>>
>>> I read the man page (uefi) and looked at the files in /boot; have an EFI partition set up with more than enough space.
>>>
>>> I would also want to be able to boot other UEFI-capable OSes including Linux, NetBSD (if that works), and Haiku when and if possible.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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>>
>> In this case, You likely want to install a tool like rEFInd, which will
>> draw a menu of all of the installed OSes and let you pick.
>>
>> I use this in two of my laptops, one dual boots freebsd and windows, and
>> the other OS X and FreeBSD on my macbook pro