Re: uefi boot on Apple Mac

I finally make MacBookPro 11,3 UEFI boot successfully:
1. copy boot1.efi to /EFI/boot/BOOTx64.efi in EFI partition
2. Create a small UFS partition in internal SSD, and installworld and
installkernel.
3. Without USB stick, then system really can boot, although the loader
still stop at:
Start _at_ 0xffffffff802d9000...
4. I can ssh log in and found that culprit is XHCI USB controller does not
work in UEFI mode.
5. Xorg and nvidia driver also works.
6. verbose boot log can be found at:
http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/uefi-messages.txt

Cheers,
Huang Wen Hui


2014-08-10 16:44 GMT+08:00 Anders Bolt Evensen <andersbo87_at_icloud.com>:

> If you're interested, you can try out the following ISO:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/srbunx0agrokcs3/freebsd-
> current-uefi-bios-amd64.iso
>
> The image was built on Friday 8th of August for the amd64 platform.
>
> I tested out the EFI part on VirtualBox (UEFI 2.X) and my MacBook Pro 17
> inch from 2011 (EFI 1.10), and as far as EFI goes, I successfully booted
> the image on both my Mac and VirtualBox (however, booting the image from
> BIOS using my Mac was a different story).
>
> So, as I said, as far as (U)EFI goes, the image should work on UEFI 2.X
> based PC's and EFI 1.10 based Macs.
>
> On 12/07/14 19:22, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
>> I'd point out that, as of last week, the standard -CURRENT ISOs (and
>> generate-release.sh script) make EFI-bootable media by default. All the
>> snapshots should have this done already, for instance.
>> -Nathan
>>
> I wasn't aware of that, but thanks for the info. :)
>
>
>> On 07/12/14 03:09, Anders Bolt-Evensen wrote:
>>
>>> I also got a message like that when I booted from a USB stick on a
>>> MacBookPro8,3 (17 inch, late 2011).
>>>
>>> I fixed it by creating a custom ISO image and burned that onto a DVD
>>> using an external DVD drive.
>>> The UEFI installer boots fine from this external DVD drive.
>>>
>>> Here is how I did it:
>>>
>>> Genereste an ISO with the FreeBSD-CURRENT kernel, mount the ISO and copy
>>> all files from the root directory in the ISO and unmount
>>>     > cd /usr/src/release
>>>     > sh ./generate-release.sh # You may have to run “make buildworld”
>>> and be connected to the internet to install required ports.
>>>     > mount -t cd9660 /scratch/R/release/FreeBSD-something-disc1.iso
>>> /mnt
>>>     > mkdir freebsd_generic_installer
>>>     #Files copied to the directory in the next command will be copied to
>>> a new ISO in step 3
>>>     > cp -R /mnt/ freebsd_generic_installer/
>>>     > umount /mnt
>>> 2. Create a FAT filesystem image and place the loader in it in the
>>> default path that UEFI will look for (the following steps are copied from
>>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI):
>>>     > dd if=/dev/zero of=efiboot.img bs=4k count=100
>>>     > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f efiboot.img
>>>     > newfs_msdos -F 12 -m 0xf8 /dev/md0
>>>     > mount -t msdosfs /dev/md0 /mnt
>>>     > mkdir -p /mnt/efi/boot
>>>     > cp loader.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi
>>>     > umount /mnt
>>>     > mdconfig -d -u 0
>>>
>>> 3. Create the custom ISO image. Please make sure that the entry in
>>> freebsd_generic_installer/etc/fstab matches the label you choose in the
>>> command below.
>>>     > makefs -t cd9660 -o bootimage='i386;efiboot.img' -o no-emul-boot
>>> -o rockridge -o label=“FREEBSD_UEFI_INSTALL" -o publisher="test"
>>> uefi-test.iso freebsd_generic_installer/
>>>
>>> To get the example in the command above to work, please make sure that
>>> the entry in freebsd_generic_installer/etc/fstab reads
>>> "/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_UEFI_INSTALL    /    cd9660    ro    0 0"
>>>
>>> 4. Burn the image to DVD, reboot your system and choose “EFI Boot”. Note
>>> that unless you are using a EFI console like rEFIt or rEFInd, you may have
>>> to kind of wait a couple of minutes while the kernel is loading before
>>> anything appears on the screen.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/07/14 16:34, Huang Wen Hui wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> On my MacbookPro11,3, I got this error message:
>>>>
>>>> http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/uefi.jpg
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Huang WenHui
>>>>
>>>> 2014-07-04 22:13 GMT+08:00 Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>:
>>>>
>>>>  On 24 May 2014 19:39, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola_at_gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, I got that in the mac laptops I tried, it worked on a Mac Pro. It
>>>>>> might be the frame buffer corruption that Ed Maste was mentioning.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I purchased a new MacBook Air yesterday (model identifier
>>>>> MacBookAir6,2).  UEFI boot and vt(4) worked correctly.  (My image
>>>>> included Rafael's patch; I haven't tried a boot without.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I also committed a change to display the framebuffer parameters
>>>>> (address, dimensions, etc.) on boot, in order to help identify the
>>>>> source of this issue.  If you have a moment can you build a new USB
>>>>> stick image and give it a try?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Ed
>>>>>
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