Unable to UEFI boot 11.2 via pxeboot
Toomas Soome
tsoome at me.com
Fri Aug 3 08:17:31 UTC 2018
> On 3 Aug 2018, at 10:28, Timo Völker <timo.voelker at fh-muenster.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Toomas,
>
> it seems your fix works here. Some of the error messages remain, but I was able to (pxe)boot without a USB stick plugged in.
>
> https://ibb.co/g8Bkfe
>
> Right after the moment from the screenshot, the FreeBSD boot manager showed up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Timo
Ok, so far so good. As seen from the screen dump, some cleanup is required, I do not think we should print about efipart_inithandles() in case of errno 2 - thats perfectly normal case if there are no block devices. Update commited:)
rgds,
toomas
>
>> On 2. Aug 2018, at 14:45, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> Could you check the current with https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337131
>>
>> thanks,
>> toomas
>>
>>> On 2 Aug 2018, at 15:32, Toomas Soome <tsoome at me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 2 Aug 2018, at 15:08, Timo Völker <timo.voelker at fh-muenster.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It seems this issue is related to current as well. I did a quick test and got this output, while I tried to (pxe)boot FreeBSD current (without a USB stick plugged in)
>>>>
>>>> https://ibb.co/no8Fve
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Timo
>>>
>>> the hint is about efipart_inithandles() returning 2, thats errno code for ENOENT. congratz, you have hit the corner case:D
>>>
>>> Since efinet_dev is part of devsw, we can not skip the devswitch init with such error, we still need to walk the list. Let me see if I can provide quick fix.
>>>
>>> rgds,
>>> toomas
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 31. Jul 2018, at 14:16, Timo Völker <timo.voelker at fh-muenster.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm unable to boot up the amd64 11.2 via pxeboot using UEFI on a Dell PowerEdge R430. I get this output
>>>>>
>>>>> https://ibb.co/h5ntuT
>>>>>
>>>>> If I press a key to interrupt reboot, I get to the OK prompt. If I enter lsdev -v, it prints nothing more than "net devices:". The variable currdev is not set (show currdev prints variable 'currdev' not found). I configured pxeboot to be the one and only boot medium in BIOS setup.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I found a workaround that works for me. If I put an (empty) USB stick in a USB port of the PowerEdge, it successfully boots via pxeboot (which is still the one and only configured boot medium). I then get this output
>>>>>
>>>>> https://ibb.co/mU8SM8
>>>>>
>>>>> With FreeBSD 11.1 pxeboot worked on the Dell PowerEdge R430, even without a USB stick plugged in. I couldn't test this with FreeBSD 12-current. Hope this helps anyway to find an open issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found this thread which seems to be related.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-July/070082.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Timo
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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