FreeBSD 10.3 BETA1&2 does not boot on Mac Pro 2008

[claudiu vasadi]

Hi,

FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20160206-r295345-disc1.iso works.

Any chance for the missing bits to be MFC'ed?

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 14/02/2016 00:47, claudiu vasadi wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> While trying to boot 10.3 amd64 uefi disk1 BETA1 and BETA2 iso on a Mac
>> Pro
>> 2008, I get the following message:
>>
>> BETA1 -
>>
>> http://s76.photobucket.com/user/da1_27/media/10.3-BETA1_zpswjatgfg2.jpg.html
>>
>> BETA2 -
>>
>> http://s76.photobucket.com/user/da1_27/media/10.3-BETA2_zpsfiedhsks.jpg.html
>>
>> Right after displaying the message I see the Num Lock going off and on and
>> I can hear the optical unit moving the head a couple of times; after that,
>> complete silence.
>>
>> When booting verbose, I get the exact same behavior and message.
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>
> The next step after that is to display the framebuffer information and
> there is some additional support added in head, 10 only supports graphics
> output protocol but head also supports UGA draw, which from the commit
> message for r287538 seems to indicate this may be required for MAC's.
>
> So if you can you try the latest HEAD snapshot and see if there are any
> difference?
>
> If that fixes it should look to try and MFC those changes too.
>
>     Regards
>     Steve
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Best regards,
Claudiu Vasadi