RE: Boot failure - svn up from this morning

> From: Alex Deiter
> Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 17:22
>
> Hello,
> The same issue with FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT-r314563:
> elf64_loadimage: could not read symbols - skipped!
>
> I suspect regression after:
>
> Revision 314547 - Directory Listing
> Modified Thu Mar 2 07:25:50 2017 UTC (25 hours, 54 minutes ago) by dexuan
> loader.efi: reduce the size of the staging area if necessary

Yes, I believe the issue is caused by the patch, which is supposed to PR 211746:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211746


Sorry for causing the issue to you, but I suspect the patch reveals a bug in your
host's firmware: the memory map reported by the host's firmware may be
incorrect.

Can you please try the patch to dump the memory map?
https://github.com/dcui/freebsd/commit/6094aac8ac9bddb24e3ac45493ac020c94029ce8.patch


And the patch will allow your host to boot.
Note: there is a 10-second pause every time 5 lines are printed. This is to make
sure we have enough time to take a screenshot or photo. :-)

About how to apply the patch and build/install it:
'wget' the above patch, and 'cd' into your FREEBSD_SOURCE_ROOT/sys/boot/ and run
"patch -p3 < the_patch_name". If you have run 'make buildworld", just run 'make' in the
sys/boot/ directory and copy the new loader.efi into the boot folder, e.g. in my side, I
use
cp -iv  /usr/obj/root/bsd.git/sys/boot/efi/loader/loader.efi /boot/loader.efi

Thanks,
-- Dexuan