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

Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 2020-Sep-11, at 07:01, Robert Clausecker <fuz at fuz.su> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 01:56:10PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
>> September 11, 2020 2:42 PM, "Robert Clausecker" <[email protected]> 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.
> 
> Possible.  I may check this later tonight.  The main thing is that the
> RPi4 firmware must be able to load UEFI's start4.elf from the EFI partition
> within a GPT partition table.  Not sure if it can do that.

I boot from a USB3 SSD that has:

# gpart show -p
=>       40  468862048    da0  GPT  (224G)
         40       2008         - free -  (1.0M)
       2048  413138944  da0p1  freebsd-ufs  (197G)
  413140992    9437184  da0p2  freebsd-swap  (4.5G)
  422578176     204800  da0p3  ms-basic-data  (100M)
  422782976   46079112         - free -  (22G)

The RPi4B finds start4.elf just fine.


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Mark Millard
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