Bug 221350

Summary: Unable to boot/install on HPE Proliant MicroServer Gen10 (AMD Opteron X3000): Hangs/Panics
Product: Base System Reporter: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf>
Component: kernAssignee: John Baldwin <jhb>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: 214748mv, andrew, anxanywhere, apirwin+freebsd, arinci, crest, crest_maintainer, curt, emaste, freebsd, grog, imp, jeff, jhb, joern.lentes, juhagman, jure.kozamernik, koobs, lg, matthew, mav, mishu, patrick.stasko, pheek, pi, raf, rajeshasp, rb, risaac, robert_welsh, rubendepedro, sysadmin, t.mikael.d, thomas, wulf
Priority: Normal Keywords: crash, easy
Version: 11.1-STABLEFlags: rb: mfc-stable12?
koobs: mfc-stable11?
Hardware: amd64   
OS: Any   
Attachments:
Description Flags
Verbose boot console output at hang point
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Non-verbose boot output showing more context before the hang
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Panic when booting with "set hint.apic.0.disabled=1"
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Panic when booting with ACPI off in boot options menu
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Kernel Display Messages of the last boot
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verbose kernel display messages
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output of pciconf -lvbce
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output of devinfo -vr
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This patch adds a quirk to address the issue
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verbose kernel messages with applied patch
none
output of devinfo -vr with applied patch
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Difference Report of devinfo -vr output
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Difference Report of dmesg
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Panic trace with xhci driver attach none

Description Rafal Lukawiecki 2017-08-08 22:23:28 UTC
Created attachment 185171 [details]
Verbose boot console output at hang point

I am unable to install/run FreeBSD 11.1 on a brand-new HPE MicroServer Gen10 containing an AMD Opteron X3421 with 16GB RAM. The installer hangs just after it prints:

pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0

Please see attached console screenshot showing verbose output which suggests that the boot process hangs just as it has collected information about the RAM on pcib0. This is while booting from a USB (several tried and tested and integrity validated) or when moving an existing pre-installed elsewhere system. Same affects FreeNAS 11.0 on this system.

Switching off ACPI during boot causes a kernel panic with a message:

panic: running without device atpic requires a local APIC

Trying to set hint.apic.0.disabled=1 (tried with apic.0 till apic.3 on this 4-core machine) causes a different panic:

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode.

I have started a forum discussion about this issue: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61936/

It has also been referred to on FreeNAS forum, as others have been affected:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/installation-stop-after-a-few-seconds-on-a-microserver-gen10.56809/#post-399023

I only have a basic understanding of FreeBSD but I am a long-time IT professional and I would be happy to submit further traces and try suggestions to help debug it. As-is, it seems like FreeBSD is incompatible with HPE Proliant MicroServer Gen10.

Thank you for your kind help.
Comment 1 Rafal Lukawiecki 2017-08-08 22:25:49 UTC
Created attachment 185172 [details]
Non-verbose boot output showing more context before the hang
Comment 2 Rafal Lukawiecki 2017-08-08 22:26:19 UTC
Created attachment 185173 [details]
Panic when booting with "set hint.apic.0.disabled=1"
Comment 3 Rafal Lukawiecki 2017-08-08 22:28:27 UTC
Created attachment 185174 [details]
Panic when booting with ACPI off in boot options menu
Comment 4 Rafal Lukawiecki 2017-08-09 17:35:29 UTC
Following suggestion by Miroslav Lachman I have tested a few other releases of FreeBSD to see if this issue still persists and if it was a regression. Unfortunately, in all tests, 9.3-12.0-CURRENT, I get exactly the same error. To be precise, these are the versions that I have tested:

FreeBSD-9.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
FreeBSD-11.1-STABLE-amd64-20170807-r322164-memstick.img
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20170807-r322167-memstick.img
Comment 5 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-08-11 08:20:14 UTC
Thank you for testing all major version branches Rafal
Comment 6 Thomas Neuber 2017-08-31 18:44:50 UTC
At first, I can confirm the behavior as described before. 

In addition to that: I had a working installation for a HPE Proliant Microserver Gen8 (Intel Xeon E3 v1220L). The old system did not support UEFI. The old installation (SD card copied 1:1 to a USB stick + the 4 hard drives) runs properly on the Gen10 after switching the settings to UEFI with CSM Enabled + Boot Mode Legacy Only - except the console. I expected the console menu after certain amount of time. 

The console output stops at:
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0

As I said, everything else works fine.
Comment 7 Jussi Hagman 2017-09-11 18:33:13 UTC
I can confirm this too. Trying to install FreeBSD (and FreeNAS) hang as described by Rafal.

I would love to provide more information to help debugging and fixing this problem.


I can run Linux on the box, but would really prefer FreeNAS.
Comment 8 Thomas Neuber 2017-09-12 17:15:21 UTC
I created an UEFI aware installation on a different PC and repeated the test as described in comment #6. The overall behavior booting with UEFI is exactly the same as with legacy boot. All configured (network) services (samba, web, ssh, several jails, etc.) are up and running but the console hangs. From a remote location, everything is functional with the expected level of performance. But locally, it is still unusable.

Let me know, if I should provide any additional information, run any test cases, etc.
Comment 9 Thomas Neuber 2017-09-12 18:46:54 UTC
Created attachment 186306 [details]
Kernel Display Messages of the last boot

Compared to this file, the visible console messages stop after line 58. The next output would be:
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xf000-0xf0ff mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xf0000000-0xf07fffff at device 1.0 on pci0
vgapci0: Boot video device
Comment 10 Jan Bramkamp 2017-09-25 09:51:30 UTC
I just ran into the same bug.
Comment 11 Thomas Neuber 2017-09-25 16:06:46 UTC
Created attachment 186707 [details]
verbose kernel display messages
Comment 12 Thomas Neuber 2017-09-25 16:07:19 UTC
Created attachment 186708 [details]
output of pciconf -lvbce
Comment 13 Thomas Neuber 2017-09-25 16:07:46 UTC
Created attachment 186709 [details]
output of devinfo -vr
Comment 14 Mikael D 2017-10-05 10:24:12 UTC
(In reply to Thomas Neuber from comment #8)

Do you mean that it boots if VGA is not used?(In reply to Thomas Neuber from comment #8)

Do you mean that it could run headless (Without VGA) ?
Comment 15 Thomas Neuber 2017-10-05 17:19:30 UTC
(In reply to Mikael D from comment #14)

My system is up and running stable for the last 9 days. Last restart was after an update from Freenas 11.0 U3 to U4. The headless use is definitely possible. The challenge was the installation without a working local console (VGA). I am not aware whether an installation from a remote location is possible and how does it works. It utilized another PC to set up the system.

The console does not work with any of the two Displayports or the VGA connector. Is the Carrizo chipset supported by the kernel?

[root@jupiter ~]# uname -a                                                                                                          
FreeBSD jupiter.fritz.box 11.0-STABLE FreeBSD 11.0-STABLE #0 r321665+25fe8ba8d06(freenas/11.0-stable): Mon Sep 25 06:24:11 UTC 2017 
    root@gauntlet:/freenas-11-releng/freenas/_BE/objs/freenas-11-releng/freenas/_BE/os/sys/FreeNAS.amd64  amd64                     
[root@jupiter ~]# uptime                                                                                                            
 7:00PM  up 9 days,  1:05, 0 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.14, 0.16                                                                 
[root@jupiter ~]#
Comment 16 Mikael D 2017-10-05 17:23:34 UTC
(In reply to Thomas Neuber from comment #15)

This is the first time ever that i encounter any *nix system that does not boot due to faulty VGA, kind of curious what the issue is.

Anyway, I hope the FreeBSD people here can fix it and I'll try running it headless once i receive my MicroServer Gen10 next Tuesday. (I've gotten myself a Gen8 too so i can have one spare and use it to install FreeNAS to the USB).

I'll do some tests and report my findings (though i think all is covered here already).

Thanks for the quick reply!
Comment 17 Jure K. 2017-10-09 07:57:45 UTC
Diffenrent system, but same symptoms: OpenBSD also gets stuck. The trick is to disable ACPI at boot. Hope this info leads you on the right track.
Comment 18 Mikael D 2017-10-09 08:00:00 UTC
(In reply to Jure K. from comment #17)

It was mentioned above that this causes a kernel panic:

"Switching off ACPI during boot causes a kernel panic with a message"
Comment 19 Jan Bramkamp 2017-10-09 09:04:24 UTC
Disabling ACPI is no longer an acceptable workaround for modern system because it disables a lot more than just power management for laptops.
Comment 20 Jörn Lentes 2017-10-09 11:08:07 UTC
I have the same problem with my HP Gen10 MicroServer with AMD Opteron X3216.

non-BSD based systems boot up fine from USB.
Comment 21 Jan Bramkamp 2017-10-09 11:32:37 UTC
The system does boot, but the only console hangs as soon as the kernel takes over from the UEFI firmware. I installed mine with mfsBSD and once FreeBSD is installed (including network configuration and SSH server) it works just fine, but it is annoying to have a headless x86 box around. And a USB<->RS232 adapter doesn't work as console because the USB stack comes up too late in the boot process.
Comment 22 Mikael D 2017-10-09 12:32:25 UTC
(In reply to Jan Bramkamp from comment #21)

Hopefully it can be fixed before we run into any boot/hardware issues that require the console before SSH has loaded.
Comment 23 Igor Porozov 2017-10-16 09:09:34 UTC
We succeed in running FreeBSD installed on another computer. 
It turns out that the video driver is hanging up, but the system itself is loaded further. 
For the full load, you need to add hard drives to fstab and network adapters in rc.conf. 
Hard drives are called ada, and network interfaces are called bge. 
After that, you can connect via SSH.
Comment 24 Jörn Lentes 2017-10-16 09:32:06 UTC
Is there a possibility to have an unattended install to workaround that problem?
What information do I need to add to the usb boot image?
Comment 25 Igor Porozov 2017-10-16 10:07:34 UTC
You can not make the installation, because freebsd does not work with the video installed in this AMD's APU. 
It is necessary to install and first configure freebsd on another computer, then rearrange the hard disk in the microserver and add information about disks and network controllers using livecd.
Comment 26 Jan Bramkamp 2017-10-16 15:50:00 UTC
FreeBSD can be installed on headless systems like the HP Gen 10 Microservers. The most common tool for the job is mfsBSD. You can put mfsBSD on a USB stick and boot from the USB stick. MfsBSD includes some scripts to start dhclient on all ethernet like interfaces and starts the SSH server by default. You can either use the minimal install er script included in mfsBSD or run bsdinstall over SSH. Due to a bug in bsdinstall you have to create /usr/freebsd-dist and load the MANIFEST manually if you want to go that way.
Comment 27 Jörn Lentes 2017-10-17 17:43:50 UTC
(In reply to Igor Porozov from comment #25)
Thanks a lot! This workaround did it. On another computer I booted from USB and installed onto another USB stick.
Network was set to DHCP.

I was able to plugin this stick into the MircoServer and boot with it. Figured out the IP it got assigned from my router and was able to access the web console.
Comment 28 Bob Bishop 2017-10-24 09:26:58 UTC
Adding: hw.pci.realloc_bars="1"
to /boot/loader.conf on an installed system will make the VGA console functional.

You can make the same modification to /boot/loader.conf on an installer memstick and that will then work to do a normal install. Tested with 11.1-R
Comment 29 Jan Bramkamp 2017-10-24 10:16:10 UTC
The same should be possible from the bootloader prompt avoiding the need to change the install medium at all. Just add it to the /boot/loader.conf when the installer prompts if you want to enter the fresh installation.
Comment 30 Bob Bishop 2017-10-24 11:46:53 UTC
(In reply to Jan Bramkamp from comment #29)

Yes. If you break out to the loader prompt and type:

set hw.pci.realloc_bars 1
boot

the installation proceeds as expected, and you can fix loader.conf at the end of installation.
Comment 31 Bob Bishop 2017-10-24 14:57:11 UTC
Created attachment 187442 [details]
This patch adds a quirk to address the issue

I've attached a patch that fixes the problem. It's tested against 11.1-R but should apply to HEAD.
Comment 32 Jan Bramkamp 2017-10-25 10:30:47 UTC
I tested the patch against FreeBSD 11.1/amd64 and it solved the problem.
Comment 33 Jan Bramkamp 2017-10-25 10:32:53 UTC
(In reply to Bob Bishop from comment #30)
The correct syntax is:
  
  set <name>=<value>

instead of:
  set <name> <value>
Comment 34 Bob Bishop 2017-10-25 10:37:38 UTC
(In reply to Jan Bramkamp from comment #33)
Of course.
Comment 35 Rafal Lukawiecki 2017-10-26 10:33:04 UTC
Thank you, everyone, and Bob Bishop for the patch. I am impressed the community were able to fix this, but I am sorry I will not be able to test it, as I have since returned the Gen 10 MicroServer back to HPE. It has been replaced with a very-well functioning SuperMicro machine, which runs FreeBSD like a charm.
Comment 36 Andrew Irwin 2017-11-05 13:38:58 UTC
(In reply to Bob Bishop from comment #30)
I have successfully tested the work around with FreeNAS-11.0-U4.  The permanent setting can be set through the web interface under System->Tunables
Variable:  hw.pci.realloc_bars
Value: 1
Type: Loader
Comment 37 Alexander Motin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-11-27 08:35:09 UTC
Can somebody try to compare verbose `dmesg` and `devinfo -vr` with and without the attached patch to find out what exactly it change in resource allocation?

PS: I am not sure it is a video adapter problem, not a BIOS, so the patch may apply workaround at the wrong place (be somewhat overaggressive).
Comment 38 Thomas Neuber 2017-11-29 15:46:17 UTC
Created attachment 188398 [details]
verbose kernel messages with applied patch
Comment 39 Thomas Neuber 2017-11-29 15:47:22 UTC
Created attachment 188399 [details]
output of devinfo -vr with applied patch
Comment 40 Thomas Neuber 2017-11-29 15:54:55 UTC
Created attachment 188401 [details]
Difference Report of devinfo -vr output

The configuration of storage and usb devices has been changed slightly, but the onboard configuration is excatly the same as before.
Comment 41 Thomas Neuber 2017-11-29 16:02:09 UTC
Created attachment 188403 [details]
Difference Report of dmesg

Same as before - storage and usb configuration changed, everything else unchanged.
Comment 42 mishu 2017-11-30 18:09:28 UTC
What is the path the patch has to take to get to master? This way we can gauge if we should wait or try to figure out how to apply & build the patch to current code.
Comment 43 Bob Bishop 2017-11-30 19:35:40 UTC
(In reply to mishu from comment #42)
Don't know about FreeNAS, but I think the patch applies to FreeBSD HEAD.
Comment 44 Thomas Neuber 2017-11-30 20:31:24 UTC
I realized my yesterdays tests as follows: I built a complete FreeNAS system from the freenas-master sources. That uses FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE as you can see in dmesg output. I pulled the all the sources and applied the attached patch. I tried the resulting ISO installation image to setup the system. Console output is now ok. Everything works fine.
Comment 45 Bob Bishop 2017-12-07 10:29:59 UTC
(In reply to Alexander Motin from comment #37)
The patch is in the form of a quirk, so its effect on other hardware should be precisely zero. Any reason why it shouldn't be committed?
Comment 46 robert_welsh 2017-12-08 18:55:43 UTC
Comment on attachment 185172 [details]
Non-verbose boot output showing more context before the hang

Have reproduced this same error on HPE Gen10 Microserver when attempting to boot from USB thumb drive to install FreeNAS11U4.
Comment 47 curt 2018-03-15 04:19:01 UTC
I am experiencing the same behavior (locks after pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0) using a USB FreeBSD 11.1 boot media. My system is a HP MicroServer Gen10 (X3421). I used the workaround (hw.pci.realloc_bars=1) to get it booted, installed and running (put hw.pci.realloc_bars=1 in /boot/loader.conf). Looking forward to a patch.
Comment 48 Rajesh Kumar M A freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-15 12:59:34 UTC
I hit a similar issue when I try to install FreeBSD 11.1 release (memstick image), in one of our development boards.

Sometimes, I see installation hangs after the below messages
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff numa-domain 0 on acpi0
pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> numa-domain 0 on pcib0

But, most of the time, I see a panic trace as seen in the attached image and the system reboots.  I see the panic during PCI device attach (like "hpet_attach" or "xhci_pci_attach"). It's like if I disable one device in BIOS, its proceeds furthur and panics in another driver. I could see "_OSC returned error 0x10" messages here as well(but it proceeds further without hang and then panics).

I tried setting hw.pci.realloc_bars=1 from boot loader prompt. It doesn't help.

So, could this issue be related to the base issue reported in this bug?
Comment 49 Rajesh Kumar M A freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-15 13:00:26 UTC
Created attachment 193428 [details]
Panic trace with xhci driver attach
Comment 50 Bob Bishop 2018-05-15 13:12:38 UTC
(In reply to Rajesh from comment #48)

Doesn't sound like it's related.
Comment 51 Rajesh Kumar M A freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-16 18:02:01 UTC
(In reply to Bob Bishop from comment #50)

Thanks for your response Bob. But I have couple of questions

1. __OSC returned error 0x10 -  What does this message mean? Is it really an issue?

2. Before the panic, we see "Unable to map MSI-X table" (since bus_alloc_resource_any call fails in xhci_pci_attach). So, driver falls to alloc MSI (pci_alloc_msi), which also fails because rman_manage_region fails (in nexus_add_irq).  So, does this mean PCI BAR mappings are not proper to allocate enough resources to the device? If so, what should be checked in this case?
Comment 52 Bob Bishop 2018-12-13 13:03:00 UTC
Just checked, the patch applies OK to STABLE and HEAD as of today.
Comment 53 Sean Bruno freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-14 14:06:37 UTC
John:

This looks fairly trivial to commit.  However, that usually means I misunderstand something.
Comment 54 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-14 17:30:18 UTC
I think the patch is probably fine.  This looks to be a BIOS bug.  The failing memory BAR for the VGA device is '0xfeb00000' with a size of 256K.  However, ACPI reserves the first page of that range as a system resource (from devinfo -vr output without the patch):

nexus0
  ...
  acpi0
      ...
      I/O memory addresses:
          ...
          0xfeb00000-0xfeb00fff

FWIW, hw.pci.realloc_bars is a bit of a conservative knob that I had considered enabling by default.  I've added Warner to see what he thinks about possibly enabling this knob by default in HEAD.  The current patch is probably fine to commit as-is and is probably safe to MFC as well since it is specific to that device id.
Comment 55 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-17 07:10:20 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: grog
Date: Mon Dec 17 07:09:46 UTC 2018
New revision: 342160
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342160

Log:
  Work around BIOS quirks on HPE Proliant MicroServer Gen10

  PR:		221350
  Submitted by:	Bob Bishop
  Reported by:	Rafal Lukawiecki
  Reviewed by:	jhb
  MFC after:	2 weeks

Changes:
  head/sys/dev/pci/pci.c
Comment 56 Greg Lehey freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-19 03:07:58 UTC
Committed, thanks.

I don't have the hardware to test this myself, so all people affected: please test and confirm that it solves your problem.
Comment 57 Petr 2018-12-31 11:28:21 UTC
Hi,

still the same problem "pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0. I have tried 12 Stable (FreeBSD-12.0-STABLE-amd64-20181226-r342545-memstick.img) and 11.2 Stable (FreeBSD-11.2-STABLE-amd64-20181226-r342543-memstick.img)

Regards, 

Petr
Comment 58 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-31 13:24:07 UTC
(In reply to Petr from comment #57)

base r342160 has only been committed head to head (CURRENT), and not yet MFC'd to stable/12 or stable/11 

You'll want to try a 13.0-CURRENT snapshot

@triage: re-open pending MFC's
Comment 59 Petr 2018-12-31 13:34:38 UTC
(In reply to Kubilay Kocak from comment #58)

Yes, 13.0-CURRENT is working perfectly. 
Can I ask, will this fix get to stable/12?
Comment 60 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-12-31 13:45:02 UTC
(In reply to Petr from comment #59)

mfc-{12,11} flags have been set to ? which means they are requested/candidates, and Greg included MFC: in the commit log message, so I'd say yes at least for 12, and given the minimal scope of the changeset, expected in stable/11 as well.
Comment 61 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-08-18 01:47:38 UTC
^Triage: Re-open to clarify MFC status

@Greg Were relevant commits merged to stable/{11,12}?

If so, can you please reference them in a comment with "base r<revision>" and set the mfc-stable* flags to +
Comment 62 L GILBERT 2019-11-27 10:05:09 UTC
The bug is still present in release 12.1.

My server : HP MICROSERVER GEN10, OPTERON X3418, 8GB.

Release 13.0 is ok.
Comment 63 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-12-02 17:27:08 UTC
Looks like the change has not been MFC'd.  I can work on that today.
Comment 64 L GILBERT 2019-12-03 10:52:43 UTC
To do not use a "current" version instead a "stable" version for a little server in production (previous server is dead) and because I must reinstall the system after a bad op, I tried many versions : 11.3, 12, 12.1... without success... but I needed times and tries to install the version 13.0 again ! => kernel panic (new message), even after a cold boot... and finally after 4 or 5 attempts, the system is installed... Now the system seems to be Ok and stable.
Comment 65 Vladimir Kondratyev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-12-03 21:49:53 UTC
*** Bug 208357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 66 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-12-03 22:02:08 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: jhb
Date: Tue Dec  3 22:01:45 UTC 2019
New revision: 355359
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/355359

Log:
  MFC 342160: Work around BIOS quirks on HPE Proliant MicroServer Gen10

  PR:		221350

Changes:
_U  stable/11/
  stable/11/sys/dev/pci/pci.c
_U  stable/12/
  stable/12/sys/dev/pci/pci.c
Comment 67 Vladimir Kondratyev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-12-03 22:06:12 UTC
r344022 partially fixed similar bug observed on my old "Acer Aspire S7" laptop which I was able to workaround with reverting of "agp: Do not attach to Intel GEN6+" commit (r296719)
But it fixed only legacy VGA mode booting. UEFI boot still hangs at the same point.
Comment 68 Greg Lehey freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-12-06 02:20:26 UTC
Reassigned to jhb@, who committed a fix addressing this issue.
Comment 69 robert_welsh 2019-12-06 18:10:23 UTC
This is a comment strictly for reference history.  On 20191126 I did a fresh install of FreeNAS 11.2.U7 on the same type HPE Proliant Microserver.  I downloaded the install image from the FreeNAS website, burned to a CD, connected an external CD drive to the server, and booted from the CD.  On its own the boot from CD did not work.  In order to successfully boot from CD, I had to make the following environment changes (Note: I did not go through multiple iterations of booting to see which changes were critical.  Just referenced old notes and made these mods):
1. set autoboot_delay=2
2. set vfs.mountroot.timeout=80000
3. set hw.pci.realloc_bars=1

When I made these environment changes, I was able to boot from CD.

Once I installed FreeNAS on the HPE server, I had to make one change to the loader.conf file in the /boot directory.  I added the "set hw.pci.realloc_bars=1" string to the loader.conf file.  After this change, the HPE server boots consistently.