On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 08:22:12AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:48:38AM +0200, Philip Homburg wrote: > > > >Also as the Moore's law curve flattens expect the life of these > > > >older, but not so old, machines to live quiet some time. I > > > >believe we are talking sandy bridge and earlier? If that is > > > >corret Sandy bridge is still a very viable system. > > > > > > I noticed this lack of love for older systems recently. > > > > > > I wanted to use an older Dell server to test the 11.2 BETAs and RCs. > > > > > > Turns out, you can't install FreeBSD using a USB stick image because the > > > BIOS only support MBR. No idea why MBR support was dropped for the USB > > > images. > > > > > > In the end I had to find a CD burner, and after a couple of tries managed > > > to > > > install from CD. > > > > > > After that, my ansible playbooks started failing because > > > /boot/loader.conf > > > is absent if you boot from zfs in combination with MBR. > > > > > > Pity. This older server hardware is great for trying out new releases, > > > play > > > with zfs, etc. > > > > The disc1.iso (as well as bootonly.iso and dvd1.iso) images are now > > built as hybrid images, supporting both MBR and GPT, as well as being > > written to a flash drive (like memstick.img) as well as a CD. > > To clarify a minor point here, are the amd64 disc1.iso images or > both the amd64 and i386 disk1.iso images being built as "hybrid"? >
Only amd64. i386 does not have UEFI-/GPT-related boot issues. > As this is what I see on my system: > root@x230a:/home/ISO/x # file FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-* > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : > ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,2), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 1, 1472695 > sectors > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data > '11_2_BETA2_I386_CD' (bootable) > > > MBR support was initially removed from the memstick installer, as it is > > not compatible with some UEFI implementations. (Or, at least that is my > > understanding, based on my limited intimate knowledge of UEFI.) > > Glen
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