Unable to UEFI boot 11.2 via pxeboot

Toomas Soome tsoome at me.com
Thu Aug 2 13:32:33 UTC 2018



> On 2 Aug 2018, at 15:08, Timo Völker <timo.voelker at fh-muenster.de> wrote:
> 
> It seems this issue is related to current as well. I did a quick test and got this output, while I tried to (pxe)boot FreeBSD current (without a USB stick plugged in)
> 
> https://ibb.co/no8Fve
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Timo

the hint is about efipart_inithandles() returning 2, thats errno code for ENOENT. congratz, you have hit the corner case:D

Since efinet_dev is part of devsw, we can not skip the devswitch init with such error, we still need to walk the list. Let me see if I can provide quick fix.

rgds,
toomas


> 
>> On 31. Jul 2018, at 14:16, Timo Völker <timo.voelker at fh-muenster.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm unable to boot up the amd64 11.2 via pxeboot using UEFI on a Dell PowerEdge R430. I get this output
>> 
>> https://ibb.co/h5ntuT
>> 
>> If I press a key to interrupt reboot, I get to the OK prompt. If I enter lsdev -v, it prints nothing more than "net devices:". The variable currdev is not set (show currdev prints variable 'currdev' not found). I configured pxeboot to be the one and only boot medium in BIOS setup. 
>> 
>> However, I found a workaround that works for me. If I put an (empty) USB stick in a USB port of the PowerEdge, it successfully boots via pxeboot (which is still the one and only configured boot medium). I then get this output
>> 
>> https://ibb.co/mU8SM8
>> 
>> With FreeBSD 11.1 pxeboot worked on the Dell PowerEdge R430, even without a USB stick plugged in. I couldn't test this with FreeBSD 12-current. Hope this helps anyway to find an open issue.
>> 
>> I found this thread which seems to be related.
>> 
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-July/070082.html
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Timo
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