Set disk sector size

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gegtor

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I have very specific windows app that need disk configured in 4096 bytes per sector and bytes per physical sector also 4096

How i can set this up?
My current state:
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Ericloewe

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You mean in a bhyve VM? And what kind of messed-up software is that?
 
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dlavigne

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This would make a good feature. Up to now zvols have been used for iSCSI so the "logical block size" appears when creating a device extent. So it could also be added to the VM device screen, or if it made sense, to the zvol creation screen.

Please create a feature request at bugs.freenas.org and post the issue number here.
 

wblock

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Just to verify: you set the sector size on a new, blank disk device before installing, rather than changing it after install?
 

wblock

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Can you show the UEFI command line that appears, along with any messages visible before it appears?
 

gegtor

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MhyFsAW.jpg

This shows up instead of windows logo after windows installer finishes work and restarts VM
 

gegtor

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Everyone at microsoft and my local forum tells me that there might be something wrong with my VM software so here i'm :)

I will add that i'm using AMD Ryzen 1700 and there were some issues with AMD & Windows on FreeNAS 11.0 and some are still present
https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/25131
 

Ericloewe

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I wonder if bhyve's implementation of UEFI is choking on 4k blocks.
 

Hx Jai

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Same issue. Any solution? The issue listed above is private, so I don't see if there's any work around. On 11.1-U4, the issue still exists.
 

gegtor

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If you really have to just install MsSQL on linux

Currently Efi dies with this sector size
 
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