FreeBSD 10.1, Mac Pro 2008, EFI, hangs at boot w/ "Start @0xfff...."
Ben Woods
woodsb02 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 07:15:06 UTC 2015
On Sunday, June 14, 2015, George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
> Andreas Wrede writes:
> >
> > > On Jun 12, 2015, at 21:47 , George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a 2008 Mac Pro (NOT a MacBook) that's been happily running
> > > FreeBSD for years via MBR partitioned disks.
> > > [...]
> > > I've recently been inspired to try the EFI booting stuff.
> > > [...]
> > > Booting either way exhibits the same symptom. /boot/loader.efi
> > > runskoads the kernel and stuff but when it boots it prints
> > >
> > > Booting...
> > > Start @0xffffffff802e7000 ...
> > > _
> > >
> > > (that's the address when booted from the SSD, the address for the 10.1
> > > USB stick is 0xffffffff802df060)
> > >
> > > and then hangs.
> > > [...]
> >
> > My experience with a Mac Pro (2009) is similar. I tried to boot
> > from CD and USB with FreeBSD 10.1 and a -current snapshot from
> > about 2 weeks ago. A MacBook Pro (2010) booted without a problem
> > with the both the 10.1 and -current USB images. The MacPro will be
> > available for more testing in a week or two.
>
> The Mac Pro will boot the 10.1 DVD.
>
> I tried the EFI DVD and it shows the same symptoms as described above.
>
> BUT I noticed that even after the "Start @0xfff..." message displayed
> and the system appeared to hang the DVD ground away for another minute
> or two. Nothing else appeared on the console, but it sounded as if
> something was happening. Perhaps the problem is "just" with the
> console setup.
>
> g.
>
That sounds like you are experiencing this bug, which unfortunately has not
been fixed yet:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193745
Unfortunately the new uefi boot does not work on some (or all?) macbooks.
Regards,
Ben
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