Re: Unable to UEFI boot 11.2 via pxeboot

> On 3. Aug 2018, at 10:17, Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com> wrote:
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>> On 3 Aug 2018, at 10:28, Timo Völker <timo.voelker_at_fh-muenster.de> wrote:
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>> Hi Toomas,
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>> it seems your fix works here. Some of the error messages remain, but I was able to (pxe)boot without a USB stick plugged in.
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>> https://ibb.co/g8Bkfe
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>> Right after the moment from the screenshot, the FreeBSD boot manager showed up.
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>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Timo
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> Ok, so far so good. As seen from the screen dump, some cleanup is required, I do not think we should print about efipart_inithandles() in case of errno 2 - thats perfectly normal case if there are no block devices. Update commited:)
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> rgds,
> toomas

It still works and it looks better with less error messages :-)

https://ibb.co/bVv9Oz

Thanks,

Timo

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>>> On 2. Aug 2018, at 14:45, Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com> wrote:
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>>> Could you check the current with https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337131
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>>> thanks,
>>> toomas
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>>>> On 2 Aug 2018, at 15:32, Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com> wrote:
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>>>>> On 2 Aug 2018, at 15:08, Timo Völker <timo.voelker_at_fh-muenster.de> wrote:
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>>>>> It seems this issue is related to current as well. I did a quick test and got this output, while I tried to (pxe)boot FreeBSD current (without a USB stick plugged in)
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>>>>> https://ibb.co/no8Fve
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>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> 
>>>>> Timo
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>>>> the hint is about efipart_inithandles() returning 2, thats errno code for ENOENT. congratz, you have hit the corner case:D
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>>>> Since efinet_dev is part of devsw, we can not skip the devswitch init with such error, we still need to walk the list. Let me see if I can provide quick fix.
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>>>> rgds,
>>>> toomas
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>>>>>> On 31. Jul 2018, at 14:16, Timo Völker <timo.voelker_at_fh-muenster.de> wrote:
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>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm unable to boot up the amd64 11.2 via pxeboot using UEFI on a Dell PowerEdge R430. I get this output
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>>>>>> https://ibb.co/h5ntuT
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>>>>>> If I press a key to interrupt reboot, I get to the OK prompt. If I enter lsdev -v, it prints nothing more than "net devices:". The variable currdev is not set (show currdev prints variable 'currdev' not found). I configured pxeboot to be the one and only boot medium in BIOS setup. 
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>>>>>> However, I found a workaround that works for me. If I put an (empty) USB stick in a USB port of the PowerEdge, it successfully boots via pxeboot (which is still the one and only configured boot medium). I then get this output
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>>>>>> https://ibb.co/mU8SM8
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>>>>>> With FreeBSD 11.1 pxeboot worked on the Dell PowerEdge R430, even without a USB stick plugged in. I couldn't test this with FreeBSD 12-current. Hope this helps anyway to find an open issue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I found this thread which seems to be related.
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>>>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-July/070082.html
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>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Timo
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