Bug 214582

Summary:	FreeBSD 11.0 Release Installer Doesn't Boot on Certain Non-UEFI Systems (HP xw4600)
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Charles Ross <cwr>
Component:	misc	Assignee:	Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	emaste, holin
Priority:	---
Version:	11.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any
See Also:	https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227954

Description Charles Ross 2016-11-16 20:29:24 UTC

Attempting to boot the following images on an HP xw4600 workstation fails; the system does not recognize the boot media:

FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img
FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img

I believe this issue could be related to the new install images that now have combined BIOS and UEFI functionality.

I suggest this because I am able to boot a 10.3 BIOS image without a problem (FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img). I am also able to boot many Linux installer images using the same hardware.

I have verified the checksums and attempted writing the images several times to known good USB drives.

The system contains an Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 @ 2.83 GHz, 4096 MB RAM.

Sorry for the limited information, but this is the most I can provide without further guidance. I am happy to provide more information upon request.

Thank you!

Comment 1 holin 2016-12-08 10:51:41 UTC

A related bug at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215143

Maybe you can try to build your own install media like I did (outlined the steps in the report) and see if it boots for you. I installed FBSD 11 in Virtualbox and used that as the build system. It took something like 8 hours an a 4 core Xeon.

Comment 2 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2018-05-28 17:39:00 UTC

If you can, please grab the test image from
 https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28-amd64.xz
uncompressing it and writing it to a USB stick, and try booting that on this hardware.

(The test image is not a full installer; it should just boot up to a login prompt.)

Comment 3 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2021-06-30 00:51:00 UTC

^Triage: close as OBE.

I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion.  Please let us know if this still occurs on a supported OSVERSION.