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Title: Nano image UEFI
Post by: SimpleRezo on December 11, 2023, 05:53:51 pm

Hi !

Nano image is MBR only, is it planned to have a UEFI (or hybrid) one ?
Would be nice for situation where installer is not an option (we are evaluating protectli VP4630 hardware: unfortunely it is only supporting UEFI boot) :/

Regards

Title: Re: Nano image UEFI
Post by: vpx on December 12, 2023, 02:45:13 pm

Hi SimpleRezo,

I just tested on Windows to convert the MBR partition to GPT but it's not possible, in Windows, MBR2GPT can only convert the system drive and the tool PARAGON Partition Manager CE does not show the option to convert from MBR to GPT. I don't know what the file system is, but it's not FAT/NTFS/ext2/ext3/ext4/Btrfs/XFS. It's probably UFS or ZFS. Maybe on Linux somebody knows how to convert the MBR to GPT.

But why dont you just use the vga image? It acts like a Live-CD. You can test it without installing.

Title: Re: Nano image UEFI
Post by: franco on December 12, 2023, 02:48:05 pm

The purpose of the Nano image is that it's an old image emulation that actually works with MBR for legacy reasons. There are VM type images that do what you need, but we don't provide them ourselves although the build tools have all you need in them.

https://github.com/opnsense/tools?tab=readme-ov-file#virtual-machine-images


Cheers,
Franco