Issue encountered booting FreeBSD STABLE and CURRENT snapshots with EFI
Joe Maloney
jmaloney at ixsystems.com
Wed Mar 14 21:55:50 UTC 2018
Hello everyone,
Today after we attempted to merge the latest 11-STABLE into FreeNAS we
found an issue with EFI boot during the testing process.
To narrow done the issue I have tested the following images:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180307-r330606-disc1.iso
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/FreeBSD-11.1-STABLE-amd64-20180307-r330605-disc1.iso
To summarize I setup a bhyve VM with EFI, and graphics. Install with
UFS, and ZFS work.
After install during the boot the following message appears if ZFS is used:
Failed to start image provided by ZFS (14)
If UFS is used during the install here is what the message looks like
on first boot:
Failed to start image provided by UFS (14)
Here is a screenshot showing the issue for ZFS:
https://imgur.com/a/rQRck
If bhyveload is used there is no issue booting. From what I can tell
it is only if the EFI firmware is used even with graphics mode off.
This has affected both CURRENT, and the latest 11-STABLE snapshot
which are linked above.
I will be out of office at the end of the week for several weeks, and
may be unable to respond to further replies right away. Either way I wanted to
make the project aware while others at iX look into this Thanks.
Joe Maloney
QA Manager / iXsystems
Enterprise Storage & Servers Driven By Open Source
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