Re: EFI issues

  Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a test box that's updated to -CURRENT usually once in a week or
> two. This box boots using UEFI. After a regular update about two weeks
> ago it started to panic on boot frequently (not UEFI related), but I
> could not get a crash dump because my swap partition was too small. So I
> moved data to the backup drive, repartitioned the main drive and boot
> again. This went fine, so I decided to upgrade to fresh -CURRENT from
> ~Jul 27th. Booting with the new kernel went fine, but after installworld
> machine stopped booting, and on the screen I see:
> 
> FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, ...
> 
> ..
> 
> BootOrder: ....
> 
> And then it gets stuck and nothing happens.
> 
> As I already have a fresh backup, I decided that it'd be easier to
> just re-install and copy data back over (maybe I messed up with
> repartitioning). So I've downloaded a fresh snapshot:
> 
> FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180726-r336739-memstick.img
> 
> And re-installed. In the installer I choose all the same settings that
> were before: UEFI + GPT, default partition scheme it suggested (efi
> followed by freebsd-ufs followed by freebsd-swap), just increased the
> swap size.
> 
> And the newly installed system won't boot just like a previous one:
> 
> https://people.freebsd.org/~novel/misc/freebsd_efi_lookup.jpg
> 
> Is there a way to recover this?

Tried updating to get r336837 mentioned in another thread, and it still
doesn't help.

Current version is r336859. Partitioning schema looks this way:

=>        40  1953525088  ada0  GPT  (932G)
          40      409600     1  efi  (200M)
      409640  1803550720     2  freebsd-ufs  (860G)
  1803960360   148897792     3  freebsd-swap  (71G)
  1952858152      666976        - free -  (326M)

I can boot it when booting from memstick r336739 and setting
vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:ada0p2".

Roman Bogorodskiy