When booting my Lenovo B590 laptop, the only thing I see before the system hangs is is: Consoles: EFI console _ When I use non-UEFI mode, I get a little further, but then I run into ACPI errors (probably bug 212260). I need to boot in UEFI mode anyway, since I have other OS's that use it. Any ideas?
The problem also occurs in FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT.
If I can provide any more information, I would be glad to do so!
Hi, Sorry for the radio silence. =-( Can you try one of the latest 11.1-STABLE or -CURRENT snapshots and let me know if this still persists (assuming you have the hardware still)? The bootloader code has been pretty thoroughly rototilled since this PR was created.
Sorry for taking so long to verify it. I used the latest image today and the issue does still occur for me.
(In reply to snthibaud from comment #4) Interesting! Can you try installing /boot/loader.efi to your ESP in place of the boot1.efi we install there as BOOTx64.efi?
Thanks for your answer! I will try, but I am not sure what an ESP is. /boot/loader.efi is included in the USB image?
(In reply to snthibaud from comment #6) Sorry =). ESP = EFI System Partion, the FAT partition that UEFI firmware uses. It should be the first partition on the USB image. You can drop /boot/loader.efi from the UFS partition in place of BOOTX64.EFI (with same name) and give that a test boot.
I tried modifying the boot image as you suggested, but this turns out to be difficult without a FreeBSD installation, since Ubuntu/Windows cannot write to UFS. Any suggestions to make this modification quickly?
(In reply to snthibaud from comment #8) I could whip up an image based on a recent snapshot with the requested modifications made, if you'd be willing to boot it. If so- amd64-memstick or a different image?
Thank you! That is indeed the right architecture and medium for me.
Hi, Apologies for the delay. Here's the image I've prepared: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180628-r335760-memstick-modified.img.xz SHA512 (FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180628-r335760-memstick-modified.img.xz) = ade27f8f313e0738956e7be82ff10f78996aee6fa754b526608e8c750a3dbd614dfe20e4760265cb035ba0c9f694be1a6b9459a7e4ba66482be8272541a5c78f Size = 611673460
Thank you! I tested that image and it fails in the same way.
(In reply to snthibaud from comment #12) Interesting! Can you keep that image around for a bit and I'll give you a BOOTx64.efi to swap into the ESP (MSDOS partition) with 100% more debug print?
Sure! Just unsure how I will modify the image again, since I still cannot boot FreeBSD.
(In reply to snthibaud from comment #14) You'll only need to mount the FAT partition, which should be doable from basically anywhere. =) It'll be the first partition on the disk.