Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:58:55 +0300 From: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <o.hartmann@walstatt.org> Cc: greg@unrelenting.technology, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>, Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: HELP: UEFI/ZFS Boot failure: Ignoring Boot000A: Only one DP found Message-ID: <12E83654-1104-408E-9A1E-BE79308B9A92@me.com> In-Reply-To: <20190822050509.64c88a51@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> References: <20190821232334.433d285c@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <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> <483d59b24a636d0214555610350b8d73@unrelenting.technology> <20190822050509.64c88a51@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de>
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> On 22 Aug 2019, at 06:04, O. Hartmann <o.hartmann@walstatt.org> wrote: >=20 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 >=20 > Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:29:29 +0000 > greg@unrelenting.technology schrieb: >=20 >> August 22, 2019 12:23 AM, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org> = wrote: >>=20 >>> Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:58:24 -0500 >>> Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> schrieb: >>>=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 >>>=20 >>> mmmhhh, Linux software to make FreeBSD boot? ;-) =20 >>=20 >> rEFInd is not "Linux software", I use it to get a nice menu to choose = between FreeBSD and >> Windows on my desktop. No Linux in sight. If anything, rEFInd has its = roots in Macs :) >=20 > My apologizes; when searching the net, the first "logo" I see is this = silly penguine face. I'm > sorry about making such simple implications. >=20 >>=20 >>> This Lenovo firmware seems very reluctant or the efibootmgr doesn't = operate properly on >>> setting variables: when trying to label the boot number (e.g. = Boot000A) with "-L FreeBSD", >>> it is always set back to "Boot000A ATA HDD0". On other platforms, = like Fujitsu servers or >>> even the cheap crap from ASRock a label once set is permenent until = deleted. =20 >>=20 >> Many laptops just ignore the boot variables outright. My X240 is the = same. >> I never switched to a proper efibootmgr setup on mine, I just have = loader.efi as bootx64.efi >> and that's it. >=20 > I tried copying loader.efi as bootx64.efi - but didn't help. >=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 >>=20 >> You can just download the EFI Shell from the internet, it's a normal = .efi executable you can >> "boot". Put it as efi/boot/bootx64.efi onto a USB flash drive and = enjoy. >=20 > I'll give this a chance as soon I have hands on the workitem again. >=20 The reason to try rEFInd and/or EFI shell is to see if we get extra = error messages otherwise hidden by GUI. In any case, to get to the root cause, we would need to start to insert = more debug printouts and see what we will find. Once you are ready to go = with it, you can poke me directly and then we can start=E2=80=A6 rgds, toomas
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