Boot failure on refreshed Dell Precision 7550

Toomas Soome tsoome at me.com
Fri Jul 10 13:36:47 UTC 2020



> On 10. Jul 2020, at 16:25, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I just got in a new Dell Precision 7550 laptop. Tried booting FreeBSD
> on it and UEFI boot failed. The screen goes black immedately when
> selecting the memstick and around ten to twenty seconds later, the
> system reboots.
> 
> I'm thinking there might be a bug in the UEFI loader. I have zero
> experience in this area, but would love to learn. Can someone punish
> me with ideas on how to debug this? ;P
> 
> I'll try to get whatever patches/fixes that come out of this effort
> upstreamed.

Just in case, is secure boot turned off?

rgds,
toomas



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