Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 10:53:39 -0400 From: Andreas Wrede <aew.freebsd@wrede.ca> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1, Mac Pro 2008, EFI, hangs at boot w/ "Start @0xfff...." Message-ID: <79D327FB-3310-4642-8B16-6361AC26BAE2@wrede.ca> In-Reply-To: <21883.35789.822027.413019@alacrity.local> References: <21883.35789.822027.413019@alacrity.local>
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> On Jun 12, 2015, at 21:47 , George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> =
wrote:
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>=20
> I have a 2008 Mac Pro (NOT a MacBook) that's been happily running
> FreeBSD for years via MBR partitioned disks. When the Mac sees the
> MBR partition it kicks in a bunch of bios emulation, which lets
> freebsd run.
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> I've recently been inspired to try the EFI booting stuff. It has the
> attraction of enabling the two extra SATA ports on the motherboard (or
> more accurately, not disabling them as the BIOS emulation appears
> to...).
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> I've tried both a USB stick of 10.1 and an SSD with -CURRENT. Both
> use EFI booting and work on my Minnowboard.
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> Booting either way exhibits the same symptom. /boot/loader.efi
> runskoads the kernel and stuff but when it boots it prints
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> Booting...
> Start @0xffffffff802e7000 ...
> _
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> (that's the address when booted from the SSD, the address for the 10.1
> USB stick is 0xffffffff802df060)
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> and then hangs.
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> Thinking that maybe the console was pointing off somewhere, I tried
> setting it at the forth/OK prompt, it was already set to "efi", which
> seems like the best choice.
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> It'd be nice to get it booting via EFI. Any suggestions for what to
> try next?
My experience with a Mac Pro (2009) is similar. I tried to boot from CD =
and USB with FreeBSD 10.1 and a -current snapshot from about 2 weeks =
ago. A MacBook Pro (2010) booted without a problem with the both the =
10.1 and -current USB images. The MacPro will be available for more =
testing in a week or two.
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aew
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