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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2017 23:03:47 +0300
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: r316677:EFI boot failure: Can't load kernel
Message-ID:  <F080994B-BA14-4916-8A8F-0BDA3A28C6EB@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <f5cca229ae70c6b2cce978438e650a27@ultimatedns.net>
References:  <AC12F921-A8BE-496A-A482-31A24913B0B6@me.com> <20170410210404.001e544d@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <20170411071734.52017b27@hermann> <20170411.234252.2142525569522461055.ish@amail.plala.or.jp> <f5cca229ae70c6b2cce978438e650a27@ultimatedns.net>

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> On 12. apr 2017, at 22:48, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote:
>=20
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:42:52 +0900 (JST) Masachika ISHIZUKA
> <ish@amail.plala.or.jp <mailto:ish@amail.plala.or.jp>> wrote
>=20
>>> replaced /boot/loader with /boot/loader.old (which was from end of
>>> March)
>>>=20
>>> copied /boot/loader.efi from the r315864 snapshot USB image
>>> into /boot/loader.efi of the broken systems.
>>>=20
>>> Aprt from the fact that I don't know which one is broken, the boxes =
are
>>> booting again.
>>>=20
>>> Conclusion: UEFI loader is broken!
>>=20
>>  Hi.
>>=20
>>  I'm using dell xps12 9q33 (core i7-4500U) with an internal SSD.
>>  As reporting Bug 218473, I cannot boot /boot/loader.efi after
>> r316585.  Replacing only loader.efi before r316584, I can boot
>> again.
>=20
> I was going to also report similar findings.
> After reporting the problem && submitting additional info to help
> diagnose the situation.
> I found that the most efficient way to overcome the issue, was to
> move loader.efi aside, and copy loader.efi from the install DVD.
> I've since lowered the priority of (u)efi in the BIOS, taking
> legacy as the higher priority. Because I had additional problems
> with vt. In the end, I find I have no issues simply booting to
> syscons(4) -- Xorg even works more harmoniously with it. :-)
>=20

We have progress with investigation, but testing has to confirm if the =
suspect is really it or not.

rgds,
toomas




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