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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:17:51 +0300
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        "Clay Daniels Jr." <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>
Cc:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HELP: UEFI/ZFS Boot failure: Ignoring Boot000A: Only one DP found
Message-ID:  <C60D0229-526E-437B-899F-24F7DEF1CDBC@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGLDxTWfF_in9hRgZNb8NBDD5fReYrNvUgUFXEtoVUG67XG=gg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20190821195847.577a165b@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <48D9A1D1-5A54-4FED-8DC8-40C9A5C9BE3A@me.com> <20190821213052.25d61cb4@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <480F8DE0-A38F-4BCA-9F36-0D812CDB7DD8@me.com> <20190821223140.643f6c63@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <f376ad0a-82de-3fca-3d72-7e938e9d1acd@denninger.net> <CAGLDxTWfF_in9hRgZNb8NBDD5fReYrNvUgUFXEtoVUG67XG=gg@mail.gmail.com>

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> On 22 Aug 2019, at 00:07, Clay Daniels Jr. <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> I would agree with Karl & Steffen about using rEFInd. It really gives =
you a
> lot more control of your computers boot. Take a look at Rod Smith's =
pages:
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
>=20
> I use it to triple boot Windows 10, MX Linux, and FreeBSD.
>=20
> Clay


rEFInd is fancy menu to start real boot loader, it really does not help =
if your boot loader is broken. In worst case, you can get fragmented =
memory from having rEFInd and native boot loader (depending on how =
stupid/buggy the firmware is).

rgds,
toomas

>=20
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:59 PM Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> =
wrote:
>=20
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>>> Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:34:21 +0300
>>> Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> schrieb:
>>>=20
>>>>> On 21 Aug 2019, at 22:30, O. Hartmann <ohartmann@walstatt.org> =
wrote:
>>>>>=20
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>>>>> Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:14:46 +0300
>>>>> Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com <mailto:tsoome@me.com>> schrieb:
>>>>>=20
>>>>>> If you drop into efi shell, can you start efi/boot/bootx64.efi
>>> manually? you should have
>>>>>> fs0: or like for ESP.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> rgds,
>>>>>> toomas
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>=20
>>>>> I can't even stop to gain access to the shell; there is no
>>> timeframe to hit any key to
>>>>> stop by and access the efi shell.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> oh
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>> hm? efi shell should be available from boot device menu, so you
>>> mean, you can not even get
>>>> into firmware setup?
>>>=20
>>>> rgds,
>>>> toomas
>>>=20
>>> Sorry,
>>> I confused loader prompt and EFI shell.
>>>=20
>>> I do not have a EFI shell on that type of laptop, not to know about
>>> it. I can access the
>>> firmware setup and already performed a reset and switched back to
>>> default settings. No effect.
>>>=20
>>> I just downloaded the newest CURRENT mem stick and extracted both
>>> boot1.efi and loader.efi and
>>> installed those into the ESP as described, setting the efibootmgr =
env
>>> accordingly. Still the
>>> same error.
>>>=20
>>> It seems that there is indeed no EFI/UEFI shell. There are Lenovo
>>> specific EFI boot options,
>>> like "diagnostics" and so on, if selected, the UEFI boots into a
>>> firmware embedded diagnostic
>>> menu. I tried several from the list given via efibootmgr show -v, =
but
>>> there is no shell from
>>> which I could access/boot an alternative loader.
>>>=20
>>> How I'm supposed to achive the access to this EFI shell? I doubt =
that
>>> on the E540 (beware of
>>> the E, it is not a L or T model) does have such a shell.
>>>=20
>>> Regards,
>>> oh
>>=20
>> I would see if you can get REFIND loaded and use that.  I have a =
Lenovo
>> X1 Carbon Gen 6 and that's the answer I used, as it allows multi-boot
>> (e.g. Win10 and FreeBSD) easily.
>>=20
>> I've not had trouble with 12.x on it, and I do use the
>> geli-encrypted-aware loader.efi.....
>>=20
>> If there's a way to get into the EFI shell on Lenovo's laptops from =
the
>> BIOS during the boot I've not found it yet.  There's supposed to be =
on
>> all EFI devices, but you know how "supposed to" works in many cases, =
right?
>>=20
>> --
>> Karl Denninger
>> karl@denninger.net <mailto:karl@denninger.net>
>> /The Market Ticker/
>> /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
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