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

From: Linus Sundqvist <linus.sundqvist_at_loopia.se>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 09:28:23 +0200
Here's the output, variable 'currdev' not found:
https://imgur.com/LlBygfr

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

Med vänlig hälsning/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!
>>
>> Med vänlig hälsning/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 vänlig hälsning/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 vänlig hälsning/Best Regards
>>>>>> Linus Sundqvist
>>>>>> System Engineer, Loopia AB
>>>>>>
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