On 8/3/23 16:48, Karel Lucas wrote:
Hi,
My openBSD installation was successful! I first removed all partitions
except for the EFI partition, which I left. Second I created one openBSD
partition(type A6) on the freed space, after which I partitioned that
partition with auto layout. Then I continued with the regular
installation, and after reboot I got the login prompt. So in hindsight
it was wise to leave the EFI partition. Perhaps others can benefit from
this experience.
So you leapt from "This didn't break the shit out of my computer" to
"everyone should do it this way". Creative. But wrong.
NO. If you don't have reason to retain the EFI partition (i.e.,
multibooting), just pick whole disk GPT and quit wasting time.
If you don't know what is in your EFI partition, you SHOULD overwrite
it so you know you have a clean and trustable system.
OpenBSD is designed to be able to install on wiped disks, new disks,
or co-exist with other systems. You seem to think that if you go
out a buy a new hard disk at the store, you couldn't possibly
install OpenBSD on it because there's no existing EFI partition.
A lot of people can assure you this is incorrect.
Nick.
Op 01-08-2023 om 07:04 schreef patric conant:
Hitting enter in the installer to use the whole disk will take care of
you. As pointed out repeatedly, there are no requirements from pfsense
to install or maintain openbsd. In the same way that pfsense didn't
need anything form OpenBSD to install, OpenBSD can create all the
necessary partitions for successful EFI experience, and doesn't need
anything from pfsense.
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 12:41 PM Karel Lucas <cahlu...@planet.nl> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm going to install openBSD on a small PC that currently has
PfSense on
it. This PC boots this OS via (U)EFI, and therefore has an EFI
partition
on the existing SSD. The current partition table looks like, as
shown by
openBSD fdisk:
0: efiboot0
1: gptboot0
2: swap0
3: zfs0.
Should I keep the (U)EFI partition? And if so, how do I mount the
future
openBSD root partition to this (U)EFI installation? Are there any
other
things I should watch out for? I look forward to receiving responses
from this community. Sincerely, Karel.
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