Unable to UEFI boot 11.2 via pxeboot

Timo Völker timo.voelker at fh-muenster.de
Fri Aug 3 07:28:49 UTC 2018


Hi Toomas,

it seems your fix works here. Some of the error messages remain, but I was able to (pxe)boot without a USB stick plugged in.

https://ibb.co/g8Bkfe

Right after the moment from the screenshot, the FreeBSD boot manager showed up.

Thanks,

Timo

> On 2. Aug 2018, at 14:45, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
> 
> Could you check the current with https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337131
> 
> thanks,
> toomas
> 
>> 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> 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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