Bug 244906
| Summary: | kernel booted by loader.efi on VMware Fusion crashes in EFI firmware | ||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Francis Dupont <fdupont> | ||||
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed DUPLICATE | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Some People | CC: | brigadir15, chris, garga, grahamperrin, hehongbo, lilycollins9x, lwhsu, pi, rleigh, tsoome, yklaxds, ypankov, yuripv, yuripv | ||||
| Priority: | --- | Keywords: | uefi | ||||
| Version: | CURRENT | ||||||
| Hardware: | amd64 | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
| See Also: | https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250580 | ||||||
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Description
Francis Dupont
2020-03-19 12:19:34 UTC
After r358989 I unable to boot my FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT VMware guest systems anymore. Even with that ``loader prompt trick''. I wrote to Toomas Soome, and he said[1] that: > Regarding the issue with vm, I am afraid the roots are going much > deeper there. I have not got to the exact cause (and therefore a fix), > but the problem is not about this specific patch. The problem is about > memory map, specifically one just before and after we switch off Boot > Services. Therefore, currently I have to revert r358989 to be able to boot UEFI VMware guests on VMware ESXi or Workstation. But that patch is not actually the reason for boot failing. [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2020-March/134676.html Found another reference http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/ESXi-VM-does-not-boot-in-UEFI-mode-from-20190906-snapshot-ISO-td6350284.html Note the r358989 breaks the work-around: the only way to recover is to boot from an install or live cd and restore a working (e.g 12.1 release, not 12 stable) loader.efi file. (In reply to Ruslan Garipov from comment #1) Yes, it does "help" to trigger the issue by adding a bit to loader.efi size and via some change to screen update - getting text on screen via simple text output protocol does cause memory allocation by uefi firmware. The first visible related error is memory allocation to store efi memory map just before we switch off BootServices, however simple switch to alternate memory does not chenge anything there, so it must be something more going on. My guess is that the best option still would be to hook up to gdb stub and try to catch where we are blowing up and then we also know why exactly. Right now we can only guess. So this is now in 12.2 as well? Can it be fixed finally? I Installed freebsd 12.2-RC3 in vmware16 with UEFI. After Installed, it also not boot with the following error message: "The firmware encountered an unexpected exception. The virtual machine cannot boot." Created attachment 219242 [details]
Screenshot of failure
VMware 15 on AMD Ryzen 2700X.
See attached screenshot. See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/cant-boot-on-uefi.68141/ for a 2018 report of the issue, though the discussion is looking at irrelevant details which aren't actually the root cause. See also https://communities.vmware.com/thread/643481 (they think it's most likely a FreeBSD bug, but there's a small possibility it's a vmware issue). I've attached detailed logs from the vmware side there which include all of the hardware details. Also on pfSense: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10943 FreeBSD 12.2: installer booted; it's on boot of the new install the failure occurs. FreeBSD CURRENT: installer will not boot. If I hit ESC and entering the EFI shell of VMware's UEFI firmware before booting FreeBSD then it will boot successfully. Hope this helps. see https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250580#c5 See also https://communities.vmware.com/message/2994826 (Discussion on VMware forum) (In reply to Hongbo He from comment #9) It doesn't, that looks like completely different issue. Still the same issue with VMware Workstation 16.{0,1} now and FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20201119-f2ea0734875-disc1.iso . Cross reference https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ir90ra/hp_probook_440_g7/gejo49g/ – apparently a hardware instance of the bug. HP ProBook 440 G7. (In reply to Roger Leigh from comment #7) Also: HP Elitebook 830 G7 <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-December/077823.html> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 251918 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 251866 *** (In reply to Yuri Pankov from comment #14) sorry, bad copy/paste :( MARKED AS SPAM |
