HP EliteBook EFI boot failure

Greg Rivers gcr+freebsd-stable at tharned.org
Sun Mar 22 23:22:49 UTC 2015


On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, John Baldwin wrote:

> I am curious if the redzone fix I committed to the EFI loader last week 
> might help.  It was noticed because gzipped kernels were corrupted when 
> loaded from disk, but it might generate other random corruption even in 
> the non-gzip case.  I think the chance that it helps is low, but it 
> isn't quite zero.
>
Snapshot FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20150316-r280130-memstick.img.xz fails 
to boot the same way.  I assume that has your redzone fix?  Is there a 
debugging version of the loader that might shed more light on the problem?

-- 
Greg


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