Convert MBR Partitions to GPT

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 9/2/19 7:48 AM, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 06:54:42 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
>> I downloaded the FreeBSD DVD1.  Disabled USB 3.0 support in the "UEFI
>> BIOS", as ASUS calls it.  Now, FreeBSD does not go into the xhci loop.
> 
> Very good! By the way, the commonly accepted terminology is
> either "BIOS" or "UEFI" - it's one or the other. Maybe ASUS
> is already infested by brainless marketing drones... ;-)

Yes, that is why I quoted ASUS!  This motherboard is 7 or 8 years old.

<SNIP>

I have those 3 unused (now) disks, so might as well play...

I think FreeBSD does not fully support my USB 3.0 controller.  Linux 
uses the xhci_hcd driver.  FreeBSD seems to use the xhci_pci driver??

On Linux:
p9x79> sudo lspci -v | grep -i asm1042 -B5 -A10
         Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
         Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
         Kernel driver in use: ahci
         Kernel modules: ahci

08:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB 
Host Controller (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8B WS Motherboard
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
         Memory at fbc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
         Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
         Capabilities: [68] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked-
         Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
         Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
         Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
         Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd

09:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB 
Host Controller (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P8B WS Motherboard
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
         Memory at fbb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
         Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
         Capabilities: [68] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=8 Masked-
         Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
         Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
         Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
         Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd