UEFI boot hangs after loader
Toomas Soome
tsoome at me.com
Tue Oct 23 20:04:22 UTC 2018
hm. in that case, whats the content of /boot/loader.rc ?
rgds,
toomas
> On 23 Oct 2018, at 23:01, Harry Newton <hn at yewbarrow.net> wrote:
>
> If boot menu is the screen where you get the options for various kernels and the picture of the daemon head, no. It stops at the point in my email — though not as I said just before the kernel is loaded but in point of fact before the menu.
>
> I've also rebuilt the kernel and still can't use efibootmgr which is puzzling me.
>
> /H
>
>
> On 23 October 2018 at 20:56, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com <mailto:tsoome at me.com>> wrote:
> Do you get boot menu? if so, press esc to get to ok prompt, then type start - if its bootfort based loader, it will load the kernel and modules. lsmod will then list the loaded files.
>
> If the loader prompt is still usable, then next command would be: boot
>
> rgds,
> toomas
>
> > On 23 Oct 2018, at 20:45, Harry Newton <hn at yewbarrow.net <mailto:hn at yewbarrow.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Just upgraded my Asus UX303L (amd64) from 11-STABLE to 12.0-BETA1 r339529
> > by source. Have a problem with booting which hangs after:
> >
> >>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
> > Loader path: /boot/loader.efi
> >
> > Initializing modules: ZFS UFS
> > Probing 5 block devices ... done
> > ZFS found the following pools: zroot
> > UFS found no partitions
> > Consoles: EFI console
> > FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
> >
> > Command line arguments: loader.efi
> > EFI version 2.31
> > EFI Firmware: American Megatrends (rev 4.654)
> > Console: efi(0)
> > Load Path: HD(4, GPT [ ... ]
> > Load Device: Pci Root [ ... ]
> > Boot Current: 0001
> > Boot Order: 0001 [x]
> > Boot Info Path: HS(1, GPT, [ ... ] /\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
> > -
> >
> > So it gets into loader.efi which runs but stops I think just before loading
> > the kernel. Partitions:
> >
> > => 40 250069600 ada0 GPT (119G)
> > 40 1600 1 efi (800K)
> > 1640 1024 2 freebsd-boot (512K)
> > 2664 1432 - free - (716K)
> > 4096 4194304 3 freebsd-swap (2.0G)
> > 4198400 245870592 4 freebsd-zfs (117G)
> > 250068992 648 - free - (324K)
> >
> > and the EFI partition is FAT 12.
> >
> > I can't provide (at the moment) any output from efibootmgr:
> >
> > root at gryphon:~ # efibootmgr -v
> > efibootmgr: efi variables not supported on this system. root? kldload efirt?
> > root at gryphon:~ # kldload efirt
> > kldload: can't load efirt: module already loaded or in kernel
> >
> > which I don't understand.
> >
> > I'm going to rebuild the kernel (currently GENERIC) and see if that allows
> > me to load efirt / use efibootmgr.
> >
> > In the meantime, I should be very grateful for any advice.
> >
> > ( Currently booting using a 11-RELEASE memstick image and dropping into its
> > loader to get to the installed 12-STABLE ).
> >
> > /Harry
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