UEFI boot problem

Eric McCorkle eric at metricspace.net
Fri May 27 22:31:50 UTC 2016


What terminal driver are you using?  This sounds like you don't have efifb installed, and your graphics card isn't supported.

> On May 27, 2016, at 10:09, Rafael Rodrigues Nakano <mseqs at bsd.com.br> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to reinstall my FreeBSD in UEFI mode, primarly because I
> dual-boot with Windows 10 and for GPT partioned disks it must be UEFI, I
> need more than 4 partitions for both operating systems.
> 
> So, the problem is, I got Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux and Debian Linux to boot
> (from USB and from DVD) on UEFI mode, also installed ubuntu this way to
> make sure its not my computer's fault or USB stick problem (also DVD), but
> when I try to boot from FreeBSD (I'm trying 11-CURRENT, but fails exactly
> the same way -RELEASE does.
> 
> In my BIOS boot screen I select "UEFI: SanDisk USB ..." and it shows the
> FreeBSD boot screen (1: MultiUser [Enter] etc, with the beastie logo), and
> whatever option I try (multi or single user) it fails the same. The pc
> simply hangs with a message "UEFI FrameBuffer information", something like
> that with some hex values, but no response at all. Keyboard is dead, mouse
> is dead, on/off button does nothing, need force shutdown.
> 
> I tried with dd (on both Linux and in a FreeBSD bios installation), tried
> Linux's unetbootin, tried Rufus, Unetbootin, USI on Windows and none works.
> What could be wrong? Thanks in advance
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