Re: EFI issues

From: Roman Bogorodskiy <novel_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:09:58 +0400
  O. Hartmann wrote:

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> Am Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:29:40 +0400
> Roman Bogorodskiy <novel_at_freebsd.org> schrieb:
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> > 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?
> > 
> > Roman Bogorodskiy
> 
> Just curious:
> 
> When I installed FreeBSD last time from the recent (2018-07-26) USB flash drive on a SSD,
> the freebsd-swap partition followed immediately after the ESP and/or freebsd-boot GPT
> loader partition. But in most cases I used to use ZFS for testing.

When I reinstalled it yesterday from -CURRENT snapshot mentioned above,
in guided mode it suggested a similar partitioning schema that I use:

=>        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)

The only difference it that the freebsd-swap size was 3.5G (and
therefore, freebsd-ufs is large), the order was the same.

> Since I had my UEFI adventure of my own these days and received valuable hints from the
> development/maintenance team on some UEFI aspects, it would be of interest to know your
> recent hardware and, more importantly since I see the boot order presented in you
> screenshot, a dump of the efi variable settings. Just for curiosity. For that, you have
> to boot the recent USB flash drive image with UEFI-only, then logon as root and perform
> 
> kldload efirt
> 
> and then issue 
> 
> # efibootmgr -v
> 
> In my case, it looks like
> 
> [...]
> [ohartmann]: sudo efibootmgr -v
> BootCurrent: 0001
> Timeout    : 3 seconds
> BootOrder  : 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004, 0005, 0000
> +Boot0001* FreeBSD-12 \
>    HD(1,GPT,e1460941-e2e9-11e5-b913-d0509907ef09,0x28,0x640)/File(\efi\boot\BOOTx64.efi) \
>    ada0p1:/efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi (null) 
>  Boot0002* Hard Drive  BBS(HD,,0x0)
>  Boot0003* CD/DVD Drive  BBS(CDROM,,0x0)
>  Boot0004* USB  BBS(USB,,0x0)
>  Boot0005* Network Card  BBS(Network,,0x0)
>  Boot0000  FreeBSD-12
> HD(1,GPT,e1460941-e2e9-11e5-b913-d0509907ef09,0x28,0x640)/File(\efi\boot\BOOTx64.efi)
> ada0p1:/efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi (null)
> 
> 
> Unreferenced Variables:
> [...]
> 
> Boot0000 is the same as Boot0001 and is defined due to some "bug" Warner Losh has fixed
> recently, it is the same as Boot0001

Motherboard is (from dmidecode):

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
        Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
        Version: 0806
        Release Date: 02/20/2014
        Address: 0xF0000
        Runtime Size: 64 kB
        ROM Size: 16 MB
        Characteristics:
                PCI is supported
                APM is supported
                BIOS is upgradeable
                BIOS shadowing is allowed
                Boot from CD is supported
                Selectable boot is supported
                BIOS ROM is socketed
                EDD is supported
                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
                ACPI is supported
                USB legacy is supported
                BIOS boot specification is supported
                Targeted content distribution is supported
                UEFI is supported
        BIOS Revision: 4.6

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
        Product Name: B85M-E
        Version: Rev X.0x
        Serial Number: 140526238405585
        Asset Tag: To be filled by O.E.M.                                                                                                                                                                          
        Features:                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                Board is a hosting board                                                                                                                                                                           
                Board is replaceable                                                                                                                                                                               
        Location In Chassis: To be filled by O.E.M.                                                                                                                                                                
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003                                                                                                                                                                                     
        Type: Motherboard                                                                                                                                                                                          
        Contained Object Handles: 0

'efibootmgr -v' output:

BootCurrent: 0004
Timeout    : 1 seconds
BootOrder  : 0001, 0002, 0003, 0004
 Boot0001* Hard Drive  BBS(HD,,0x0)
 Boot0002* Network Card  BBS(Network,,0x0)
 Boot0003* UEFI OS HD(1,GPT,78459ec0-9303-11e8-97e6-98ded0009b1c,0x28,0x64000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)
                      ada0p1:/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (null)
                  Path(0,0,ae84b11df581724e85442bab0c2cac5c020000020000)
+Boot0004* UEFI: SanDisk PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/USB(0x1,0x0)/USB(0x4,0x0)/HD(1,MBR,0x90909090,0x1,0x640)
                        VenHw(2d6447ef-3bc9-41a0-ac19-4d51d01b4ce6,530061006e004400690073006b000000)


Unreferenced Variables:


> Kind regards,
> 
> oh
> 
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> O. Hartmann
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Roman Bogorodskiy

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