EFI ZFS loader success story

Ganael Laplanche ganael.laplanche at corp.ovh.com
Fri Apr 8 14:11:45 UTC 2016


On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:39:40 AM Ganael Laplanche wrote:

Hi everyone,

This is a follow-up to this post :

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2015-August/048141.html

> Pushing the limits :
> --------------------
> 
> Using this method, it is even possible to get a system bootable from UEFI
> *or* legacy BIOS.
> [...]

I have just filed a PR that enables that "dual-mode" :

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208629

This patch enables a new "BIOS+UEFI" boot type, allowing the machine to reboot 
either in BIOS mode or in UEFI mode :)

Best regards,

-- 
Ganaël LAPLANCHE <ganael.laplanche at corp.ovh.com>


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