From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Dec 31 06:01:44 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@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 EE620A56D93 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 06:01:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teddyg522@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pa0-x22f.google.com (mail-pa0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D15081C2B for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 06:01:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teddyg522@gmail.com) Received: by mail-pa0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id do7so182428pab.2 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:01:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=sAj4GavtzTAgJP7ZpU0hjVLqoDuO9BTGCalKdVN18EU=; b=Coytan1Gqud38cYuekXeUkRdoyIyGwdb/Xza5CiB00O8A6EJkOfvQJWk112xsnmkDg iERQTq8V2ukng8zZe9Qf4MHV+FN8/2ll92d/mPbLVUcBIYNQsz1yl3PG20zG3DzdUNo1 IVFlL76UFCpVibZhQ7EOAPmtSYF1aEMPmvu9kEwEN3kaZ4jeT1sdhoHMwEQD0E9+6Phc g3mwphzdENDIYCRUvZ2xnGau3MuWZtdUdyN3xrZ+IsagxdzBywUKkZAlETIqt3OT0hDz NmEzZ/ZKGJJFrfM2ODl7WEKe+nB0LfI545ciQqRNjftS3sQHp60fXqwCqp74YitYcqXx 5xiA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.253.5 with SMTP id zw5mr39832179pac.100.1451541702977; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.22.35 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.22.35 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:01:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:01:42 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: UEFI Memstick Not Booting on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon From: Atomic Beef To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 06:01:44 -0000 Upon further testing, the USB does not boot on my desktop either, eliminating the possibility of a buggy UEFI. Instead, the issue must be caused by the way I create the installation media. Ted On Dec 29, 2015 6:11 PM, "Atomic Beef" wrote: > Hello, > > Over the past few days I have been trying to install FreeBSD 11-CURRENT > with full disk encryption on my laptop and finally got it installed > yesterday, albeit without any encryption. > > The problem that I was running into was that even though the installer on > the USB booted fine and installed the system, my laptop would fail to boot > the brand new installation. I managed to "fix" this by inserting the USB > with a 10.2-RELEASE installer on it. For some reason my system started to > boot just fine after that. > > Once I had tested that everything worked on my laptop, I used dd to get > the 11-CURRENT snapshot back on my USB, but I found that it would refuse to > boot. The 10.2-RELEASE image doesn't work either. > > When I asked the forums about this issue, they said that it could be a > problem with the UEFI on my laptop and that a workaround might have to be > created. > > Thanks, > > Ted >