(244906) installers for FreeBSD fail to boot HP Elitebook 830 G7

[Rebecca Cran]

On 12/11/2020 8:03 PM, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 11/12/2020 18:26, Ludovit Koren wrote:
>
>>
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE,
>> FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20201203-f659bf1d31c
>>
>> The image starts booting and it hangs in:
>>
>> ....
>> Loading kernel...
>> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x16bdcc4 data 0x140 data 0x75fe80 ....
>> Loading configured modules...
>> can't find '/etc/hostid'
>> can't find '/boot/entropy'
>> Start @ 0xffffffff80373000 ...
>> EFI framebuffer information:
>> addr, size      0xa0000000, 0x7e9000
>> dimensions      1920 x 1080
>> stride          1920
>> masks           0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000
> Probably 
> <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-December/077759.html>

This crash also happens on VMware Workstation 16 Pro with 13-CURRENT. 
I'm hoping to find some time to debug it.


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Rebecca Cran