Serial image - MBR Only ??

[Mega32]

Hello "Guru's"

I noticed the OPNsense serial image mentions it's MBR only ... AKA no UEFI install or ?
Is that only for the "Live part" , or does that also affect the Installer

I'd like to use serial as installer method if possible, but would also like to use UEFI.
Is that possible ??

[Mega32]

Serial worked like a charm, and i got the possibility to do a ZFS GPT install - When logging into the installer 
Thnx Dev's

Installing was a "Tight fit" on the initial disk allocated (used 1.6G of 1.7G created)
But it resized to use the full disk on next boot.

[franco]

The Nano image is MBR only, but it also doesn't have an installer.

The Serial, VGA and DVD images are all GPT/UFS with UEFI support and have an installer for Hybrid UFS or ZFS installation. Hybrid means that you can turn UEFI on and off and the boot won't fail. The standard FreeBSD installers cannot do this.


Cheers,
Franco

[Mega32]

I guess i was confused by this statement:

[franco]

Sorry, this is wrong. Let's fix that.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/install.html#installation-images


Cheers,
Franco

[cookiemonster]

The Nano image is MBR only, but it also doesn't have an installer.

The Serial, VGA and DVD images are all GPT/UFS with UEFI support and have an installer for Hybrid UFS or ZFS installation. Hybrid means that you can turn UEFI on and off and the boot won't fail.

Franco, if you don't mind me saying, this quoted bit is super useful and clarifies frequent queries on the forum.
IMHO it would be useful to add to the documentation. The improvement you just made is good but with this addition, all is clear.

[Mega32]

Hybrid means that you can turn UEFI on and off and the boot won't fail.

That's outright COOL

[franco]

To be honest it was initially added to make testing easier

What most likely also don't know is that auto-grow after disk resize is possible for both UFS and ZFS via

# touch /.probe.for.growfs && opnsense-shell halt

(resize disk in VM and start it back up)


Cheers,
Franco