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

From: Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 11:23:06 +0300
> On 5 Jul 2018, at 10:28, Linus Sundqvist <linus.sundqvist_at_loopia.se> wrote:
> 
> Here's the output, variable 'currdev' not found:
> https://imgur.com/LlBygfr <https://imgur.com/LlBygfr>


Yes indeed, as you got the error, so the variable was not set at all. My suggestion would be to walk over the code in main.c, and to try to get more debug printouts from that dell system… Im myself mostly offline till next week.

rgds,
toomas

> 
> 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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