Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 22:13:12 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CURRENT: EFI boot failure Message-ID: <20140918221312.3811e382.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20140916020541.03c18d04.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <20140916020541.03c18d04.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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--Sig_/WfQo.9SgOOH6_G34tw8wFgv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am Tue, 16 Sep 2014 02:05:41 +0200 "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> schrieb: >=20 > Installing FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20140903-r270990 on a Laptop works = for UEFI fine. > After I updated the sources to r271649, recompiled world and kernel (as = well as > installed), now I get stuck with the screen message: >=20 > >> FreeBSD EFI boot block > Loader path: /boot/loader.efi >=20 > and nothing happens. After a couple of minutes, the system reboots. >=20 > What happened and how can this problem be solved? after today's "make world" (revision 271800) and two days of normal operati= on, I run into the same situation as described above! This is more than annoying! The scre= en show simply >> FreeBSD EFI boot block Loader path: /boot/loader.efi and nothing happens forever. Usually, the loader/console shows up. This tim= e the system gets stuck as I reported earlier. I can not afford another two days of installing the laptop again. How can I= get rid of this immature EFI and run the system in the traditional way? It seems two i= mmature systems meet each other, vt() and EFI and this ends up in a desaster. What is the fallback procedure? How to save the system and circumvent this = problem? Is there a way to interrupt the boot process and drop out into some kind of em= ergency screen/console? BTW, I temporarily fixed this issu by copying the USB drive image's loader.= efi into boot. This seems to be a bug in the compiler/compiling loader.efi. --Sig_/WfQo.9SgOOH6_G34tw8wFgv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUGzzdAAoJEOgBcD7A/5N8Fx8H/j1qHObMSIeepXqj3LQHosyn 03kdo2PIEghpkrxir0k11ZO5YUzvzJsFlh2y2jHBdN3B0NAEDubekFBmiUfFu9qc 6RG7gfsKCc9c1Dd9u9fDajdH/nb/7O3wkO9u9JmAL6FokbFX1OTQEHJSsIP5G/0J +Q6lE/MdaVQDtDo9s/yBQEV5B7bihZ43vFUfDaer3OnV/qaBg0A+XMVJtYZ84pvD V/czf7BJBoOA4H8DOAevrL+TgAGUwCZ1Vl89zngC/HhlDHbt668wCZ0dfGEDc1Lv M+U8gTw+ULq4vWmpWkYB2A1djTuLZzA+jknb2xU21LuYHxLjbfwKXNZxfv3A2yk= =WHwy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/WfQo.9SgOOH6_G34tw8wFgv--
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