Boot failure on refreshed Dell Precision 7550

[Toomas Soome]

> On 10. Jul 2020, at 16:43, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 04:36:41PM +0300, Toomas Soome wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 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?
> 
> It is. FWIW, the laptop shipped with Ubuntu.
> 

The stick… what is on it?:) I mean, boot1.efi or loader.efi?

rgds,
toomas