After BIOS-Upgrade, I can't (UEFI-) boot anymore

[O'Connor, Kevin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> proliant at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner
> Sent: 17 November 2015 23:13
> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Cc: freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
> Subject: After BIOS-Upgrade, I can't (UEFI-) boot anymore
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a HP DL380 G9, that I boot from an internal SmartArray Controller
> provided RAID1 into FreeBSD 10.1 amd64.
> 
> I have upgraded the BIOS to the 2015-10 release and on reboot, I now get a
> message that
> 
> /boot/loader.efi
> 
> can’t be found.
> 
> I can legacy boot it into mfsbsd and the file is there.
> 
> How can I fix this?
> Or how can I debug this and why is this failing in the first place?


From the wiki

The boot process proceeds as follows:

    UEFI firmware runs at power up and searches for an OS loader in the EFI system partition. The path to the loader may be set by an EFI environment variable, with a default of /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI.

        For FreeBSD, boot1.efi is installed as /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI.
        boot1.efifat is an image of such a FAT filesystem for use by bsdinstall 
    boot1.efi locates the first partition with a type of freebsd-ufs, and from it loads loader.efi. (This may be a different disk than the one holding the EFI system partition.)
    loader.efi loads and boots the kernel, as described in loader(8).

So my best guess is that something has been changed by the upgrades and boot1.efi  no longer knows the correct location of  /boot/loader.efi

You'll have to go digging in the EFI system partition to work out what has changed. (I assume you have done an automated install of the HP support DVD and upgraded the array controller and the HDD microcode etc.)

Kevin

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> 
> Rainer
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