Re: AWS Graviton1 Graviton2

myfreeweb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
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On September 26, 2020 12:54:59 AM UTC, Michael Sierchio <[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm using an instance based on the marketplace AMI: ami-01d2b8af277052bcc.4
>and trying
>to come up with a partition scheme on a new disk that works.  No joy so far.
>
>Must I use MBR as the scheme?

No of course not. It's actually really stupid that the official AMIs use MBR. I used GPT when I first booted FreeBSD on the Graviton instances.

You should use GPT.

>Is EFI boot the only way?

Yes. What else would you even want? :)

FreeBSD does not support any other kind of boot on arm64. Even embedded crap devices load the EFI loader from u-boot.
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