HP EliteBook EFI boot failure

[Oliver Pinter]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Greg Rivers
<gcr+freebsd-stable at tharned.org> wrote:
> 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?
>

Try to overwrite the loader from FreeBSD 9.3's memstick image. In my
case this works.
Other possible solution is to try to compile the loader with GCC - I
not tested this case, but I think it could work.

> --
> Greg