Unable to UEFI boot 11.2 via pxeboot

Kyle Evans kevans at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 2 13:43:01 UTC 2018


On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:45 AM, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
>> On 2 Aug 2018, at 15:32, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 2 Aug 2018, at 15:08, Timo Völker <timo.voelker at fh-muenster.de <mailto: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 <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
>>
>
> Could you check the current with https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337131 <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337131>
>
> thanks,
> toomas
>

Hmm... that's less than great. Is this worth an MFC + 11.2 EN? I'd
suspect it's not an entirely common case at all, but loader.efi is
highly visible and actually updated in stable/11 (vs. soon-to-be
thrown on ESP in head.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans


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