EFI Boot

[openzu]

Hi,

I bought a Zotac CI323nano to install OPNsense. It does boot in Legacy mode, but after reboots it just hangs for a very long time and the whole setup does not seem very stable. Ubuntu 14.04 on the same machine with EFI Boot was way more stable. Is there a way to EFI Boot OPNsense? I could not find an option at install.

kind regards,
openzu

[jschellevis]

As far as I can see UEFI support in freebsd is new as of 10.2 not sure how well stock freebsd works on your mainboard.. Can you test that first? 
See also: https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI

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Van: openzu notifications@github.com
Datum: 02-01-2016 14:07 (GMT+01:00)
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Onderwerp: [core] EFI Boot (#594)

Hi,

I bought a Zotac CI323nano to install OPNsense It does boot in Legacy mode, but after reboots it just hangs for a very long time and the whole setup does not seem very stable Ubuntu 1404 on the same machine with EFI Boot was way more stable Is there a way to EFI Boot OPNsense? I could not find an option at install

kind regards,

openzu

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[openzu]

I downloaded http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.2/FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img put it on a usb stick and booted via uefi. I installed it and an efi boot partition was created automatically. Booting the installed OS from SSD worked as well.

edit: UEFI Windows 8 mode works best.

[fichtner]

@openzu With version 16.1 you may be able to use opnsense-bootstrap(8) in your 10.2 EFI install to convert the system to OPNsense... https://github.com/opnsense/update#opnsense-bootstrap

We will be looking into a full EFI boot image for 16.7.

[fichtner]

done for amd64 "cdrom" and "vga" images. The installer will also offer a "gpt/uefi" mode for installation as the new default. "mbr" is still possible.