From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 21 16:17:38 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D6ED16F98 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD6801BFB for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id BBD01CB8C99; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:17:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:17:36 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19840.128.135.52.6.1490113056.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:17:36 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Unable to create bootable dvd From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:17:38 -0000 On Tue, March 21, 2017 11:04 am, James B. Byrne wrote: > On Mon, March 20, 2017 14:32, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> My hunch is: option "-dvd-compat" screws things up making it not > bootable. >> That option is only relevant to creation of video DVD ROMs >> (main goal of it is re-arrange the track so that table of >> contents files are the first onces along the track - which >> is necessary in stand alone DVD players). >> I do use this command all the time to burn bootable media >> (FreeBSD, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu...) and all of them work >> well for me. I do not use "-speed" option, but it shouldn't >> matter, and using slowest speed as you specify may help getting >> best possible quality of burn result. Anyway, >> here is command line from my command history: >> growisofs -Z >> /dev/dvd=/data/system-media/debian-8.6.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso >> I hope, this helps. >> Valeri > > I created multiple dvds, some with and some without -dvd-compat and > -speed=1. There was no apparent difference in effect. I had similar > problems with usb flash media. Funnily enough I had no problem with > either medium if I used FreeBSD-10.3 images. Aha, then I was wrong about -dvd-compat screwing it up when you burn image, not a collection of files... You learn something every day; thanks for sharing. Valeri > > The problem turned out to be UEFI. This was not enabled on the host > system I was attempting to install on; a re-purposed backup host > formerly running CentOS-6.8. Enabling this feature in BIOS (there is > a certain irony in this) allowed me to install FreeBSD-11.0 from the > usb flash drive. > > This change also allowed the system to detect and initialise from > optical media as well but the boot process never completes. I see > this sort of stuff instead: > > Consoles: EFI Console > Command line arguments: loader.efi > Image base: 0x2235000 > EFI version: 2.00 > EFI Firmware: American Megatrends (rev 4.631) > > FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org, Thu Sep 29 01:38:06 UTC 2016) > efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 > efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 > can't open '/boot/loader.4th': no such file or directory > 50 > efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 > efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 > / > /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x14ed860 data=0x132538+0x4baa68 > syms=[0x8+0x159ee8+0x8+0x172d9c] > Hit [enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. > Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]]... > Start @ 0xffffffff802ff000 ... > EFI framebuffer information: > addr, size 0xc0000000, 0x1ff0000 > dimensions 800 x 600 > stride 800 > masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000 > | > > at which point all activity ceases. Literally. One cannot even reboot > from the keyboard using ctrl-alt-del. > > I speculate that the firmware on the motherboard is likely out-of-date > and may be the source of the problem. In any case FreeBSD-11.0 has > been installed to the HDD by other means and boots from that without > problem. > > As this system is but a temporary replacement these difficulties turn > out to be annoyances rather than a concern. > > Regards, > > -- > *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** > Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail > Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail > > James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca > Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca > 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 > Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 > Canada L8E 3C3 > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++