Re: Unable to UEFI boot 11.2 ISO (latest 12.0 as well)

From: Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg_at_pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 10:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
> Here's the output, variable 'currdev' not found:
> https://imgur.com/LlBygfr

Hum, currdev didnt get set, but I see the loaddevice looks to be
cd1:  Toomas is right, we have an edge case here that is failing
to set currdev properly.

> 
> And to answer Rodneys question from before, this is the emulated CD drive from a Dell iDRAC (remote console thingy).

Thanks, that helps.  I'll try to duplicate this failure mode since I have Dells,
IIRC this virtual emulated CD drive shows up as a USB device.

> Med v?nlig h?lsning/Best Regards
> Linus Sundqvist
> System Engineer, Loopia AB
> 
> On 05/07/18 09:17, Toomas Soome wrote:
> > Could you check, show currdev from OK prompt before setting it.
> > 
> > Somehow the boot device path is shown but we fail to recognize it (as seen by error message). However, the lsdev -v does show the path, so the efipart.c seems to do its work correctly. I feel, there should be some corner case in efi/loader/main.c where we detect the boot device.
> > 
> > Rgds,
> > Toomas
> > 
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > 
> >> On 5 Jul 2018, at 09:32, Linus Sundqvist <linus.sundqvist_at_loopia.se> wrote:
> >>
> >> Running these commands makes the boot menu show up, and then takes me to the BSD installer!

Good, so there is a work around....


> >> Med v?nlig h?lsning/Best Regards
> >> Linus Sundqvist
> >> System Engineer, Loopia AB
> >>
> >>> On 04/07/18 16:50, Toomas Soome wrote:
> >>> set currdev=cd1:
> >>> include /boot/loader.rc
> >>>
> >>> This should give menu/boot.
> >>>
> >>> Rgds,
> >>> Toomas
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>
> >>>> On 4 Jul 2018, at 16:25, Linus Sundqvist <linus.sundqvist_at_loopia.se> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Sure, while using the 12.0 ISO here is lsdev -v and ls cd0:
> >>>> https://imgur.com/RmYpg7u
> >>>>
> >>>> and here is ls cd1:
> >>>> https://imgur.com/FPsixOw
> >>>>
> >>>> Med v?nlig h?lsning/Best Regards
> >>>> Linus Sundqvist
> >>>> System Engineer, Loopia AB
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 04/07/18 15:08, Toomas Soome wrote:
> >>>>> Can you post lsdev -v output?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Also, could you try ls command? Like, ls cd0:   
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rgds,
> >>>>> Toomas
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 4 Jul 2018, at 12:28, Linus Sundqvist <linus.sundqvist_at_loopia.se> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm unable to boot up the amd64 11.2 disk1 ISO as well as the latest amd64 12.0 disk1 ISO (20180628) using UEFI on a Dell PowerEdge R430 by getting this error:
> >>>>>> https://imgur.com/a/Idljfhm
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The bootonly ISOs seems to show the same error message.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Changing the server to boot via BIOS loads the setup correctly, however, I want to use UEFI on all our servers, which I have done before.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The 11.1 ISO boots without any trouble at all using both UEFI and BIOS.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I was helped by koobs in #freebsd _at_ Freenode who asked me to send an e-mail this way and linking to these commits as a reference:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13784
> >>>>>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=332416
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So far I've tried to UEFI boot the 11.2 ISO and 12.0 ISO with the following Dell PowerEdge models without success:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> R440
> >>>>>> R630
> >>>>>> R430
> >>>>>> FC430
> >>>>>> R330
> >>>>>> R620
> >>>>>> R420
> >>>>>> R610
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> -- 
> >>>>>> Med v?nlig h?lsning/Best Regards
> >>>>>> Linus Sundqvist
> >>>>>> System Engineer, Loopia AB
> >>>>>>
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes_at_freebsd.org
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