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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 2020 17:07:46 +0300
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot failure on refreshed Dell Precision 7550
Message-ID:  <6A1AAC82-21A0-4E01-A048-F97D4888005B@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200710134359.q6rsswbbci32xfsz@mutt-hbsd>
References:  <20200710132557.gfcsbnffmmqzswdh@mutt-hbsd> <373D9D74-E5B6-4458-874A-8276B1BA7324@me.com> <20200710134359.q6rsswbbci32xfsz@mutt-hbsd>

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> On 10. Jul 2020, at 16:43, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 04:36:41PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 10. Jul 2020, at 16:25, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> I just got in a new Dell Precision 7550 laptop. Tried booting FreeBSD
>>> on it and UEFI boot failed. The screen goes black immedately when
>>> selecting the memstick and around ten to twenty seconds later, the
>>> system reboots.
>>> 
>>> I'm thinking there might be a bug in the UEFI loader. I have zero
>>> experience in this area, but would love to learn. Can someone punish
>>> me with ideas on how to debug this? ;P
>>> 
>>> I'll try to get whatever patches/fixes that come out of this effort
>>> upstreamed.
>> 
>> Just in case, is secure boot turned off?
> 
> It is. FWIW, the laptop shipped with Ubuntu.
> 

The stick… what is on it?:) I mean, boot1.efi or loader.efi?

rgds,
toomas




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