Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:07:02 -0500 From: "Clay Daniels Jr." <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HELP: UEFI/ZFS Boot failure: Ignoring Boot000A: Only one DP found Message-ID: <CAGLDxTWfF_in9hRgZNb8NBDD5fReYrNvUgUFXEtoVUG67XG=gg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f376ad0a-82de-3fca-3d72-7e938e9d1acd@denninger.net> 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>
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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/ I use it to triple boot Windows 10, MX Linux, and FreeBSD. Clay On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:59 PM Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> wrote: > ----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:34:21 +0300 > > Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> schrieb: > > > > >> On 21 Aug 2019, at 22:30, O. Hartmann <ohartmann@walstatt.org> wrote: > > >> > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > >> Hash: SHA256 > > >> > > >> Am Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:14:46 +0300 > > >> Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com <mailto:tsoome@me.com>> schrieb: > > >> > > >>> If you drop into efi shell, can you start efi/boot/bootx64.efi > > manually? you should have > > >>> fs0: or like for ESP. > > >>> > > >>> rgds, > > >>> toomas > > >> > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> 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. > > >> > > >> Kind regards, > > >> oh > > > > > > > hm? efi shell should be available from boot device menu, so you > > mean, you can not even get > > > into firmware setup? > > > > > rgds, > > > toomas > > > > Sorry, > > I confused loader prompt and EFI shell. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Regards, > > oh > > 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. > > I've not had trouble with 12.x on it, and I do use the > geli-encrypted-aware loader.efi..... > > 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? > > -- > Karl Denninger > karl@denninger.net <mailto:karl@denninger.net> > /The Market Ticker/ > /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/ > > >
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