Issue encountered booting FreeBSD STABLE and CURRENT snapshots with EFI

[Joe Maloney]

We narrowed the issue down to how vm-bhyve attaches a null.iso when
starting the VM.

For now a hack like so to vm-bhyve can get around the issue:

https://github.com/araujobsd/vm-bhyve/commit/29db2d6c6ec4a29578dc111903107f25a78cdf82

This may simply be an issue with vm-bhyve attaching an invalid iso image to
the VM, and I would conclude it is odd that it does so.  Or there may still
be an issue that affects even the latest 03-22-18 snapshots for example if
other media is present when booting with bhyve, or natively.  I would need
to do some more testing at a later date to confirm but just wanted to pass
along what was discovered to be the root cause thus far.

On Friday, March 16, 2018, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdport at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2018-03-16 9:55 GMT+08:00 Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org>:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:46 PM, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdport at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > 2018-03-16 7:07 GMT+08:00 Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org>:
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Kyle Evans <kevans at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> > >> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org>
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> >>> I believe the problem may have been introduced with this commit:
> > >
> > >> >>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/?view=log&pathrev=329114
> > >> >>
> > >> >>  Any chance of being able to work out where in that list of commits
> > in
> > >> >> CURRENT the loader stopped working ?
> > >> >>
> > >> >
> > >> > Indeed- if you could work out the exact commit in that range from
> head
> > >> > that caused it, I wouldn't think it to be a tough fix. After tonight
> > >> > I'm out until Sunday, but should have time Sunday or Monday to try
> and
> > >> > diagnose it further.
> > >>
> > >> Can one of you try this with boot1.efi+loader.efi built from today's
> > >> head stand/? I'm not sure what I'm expecting here since these are
> > >> among my first times trying bhyve, but this is what I'm seeing now
> > >> (vs. from the mentioned head snapshot where I noted similar behavior
> > >> as originally mentioned):
> > >>
> > >> 1.) Get to loader.efi, menu is good
> > >> 2.) Break into loader prompt
> > >> 3.) `lsdev`- pager is restricted to the line the prompt is on, so the
> > >> output is useless
> > >> 4.) `boot`
> > >> 5.) "Unhandled ps2 mouse command 0xe1"
> > >>
> > >> At this point, the boot looks screwed until I VNC into it- it booted
> > >> fine here, but the console stopped working after the kernel handoff.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Kyle Evans
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> > >
> > > Hi Kyle,
> > >
> > > I will do that today and report back as soon as I have something.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks! If it's still failing, I think capturing the output of "lsdev"
> > and "show currdev" prior to a failed boot might be most helpful just
> > to make sure there's not something obviously sketchy happening.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I think we had two bad snapshots!
>
> I just finished the tests with HEAD and 11-STABLE latest snapshots:
> 1) HEAD: FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180315-r331001-disc1.iso
> 2) Stable: FreeBSD-11.1-STABLE-amd64-20180315-r330998-bootonly.iso
>
> I have installed it using ZFS and tested using AHCI and virtio-blk.
>
> So everything worked fine.
> Seems those broken snapshots have missed some commits related with EFI.
>
>
> Thank you all.
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>
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