Re: UEFI boot hangs after loader

If boot menu is the screen where you get the options for various kernels
and the picture of the daemon head, no.  It stops at the point in my email
— though not as I said just before the kernel is loaded but in point of
fact before the menu.

I've also rebuilt the kernel and still can't use efibootmgr which is
puzzling me.

/H


On 23 October 2018 at 20:56, Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com> wrote:

> Do you get boot menu? if so, press esc to get to ok prompt, then type
> start - if its bootfort based loader, it will load the kernel and modules.
> lsmod will then list the loaded files.
>
> If the loader prompt is still usable, then next command would be: boot
>
> rgds,
> toomas
>
> > On 23 Oct 2018, at 20:45, Harry Newton <hn_at_yewbarrow.net> wrote:
> >
> > Just upgraded my Asus UX303L (amd64) from 11-STABLE to 12.0-BETA1 r339529
> > by source.  Have a problem with booting which hangs after:
> >
> >>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
> > Loader path: /boot/loader.efi
> >
> > Initializing modules: ZFS UFS
> > Probing 5 block devices ... done
> >  ZFS found the following pools: zroot
> >  UFS found no partitions
> >  Consoles: EFI console
> >  FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1
> >
> >    Command line arguments: loader.efi
> >    EFI version 2.31
> >    EFI Firmware: American Megatrends (rev 4.654)
> >    Console: efi(0)
> >    Load Path: HD(4, GPT [ ... ]
> >    Load Device: Pci Root [ ... ]
> >    Boot Current: 0001
> >    Boot Order: 0001 [x]
> >    Boot Info Path: HS(1, GPT,  [ ... ]  /\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
> > -
> >
> > So it gets into loader.efi which runs but stops I think just before
> loading
> > the kernel.  Partitions:
> >
> > =>       40  250069600  ada0  GPT  (119G)
> >         40       1600     1  efi  (800K)
> >       1640       1024     2  freebsd-boot  (512K)
> >       2664       1432        - free -  (716K)
> >       4096    4194304     3  freebsd-swap  (2.0G)
> >    4198400  245870592     4  freebsd-zfs  (117G)
> >  250068992        648        - free -  (324K)
> >
> > and the EFI partition is FAT 12.
> >
> > I can't provide (at the moment) any output from efibootmgr:
> >
> > root_at_gryphon:~ # efibootmgr -v
> > efibootmgr: efi variables not supported on this system. root? kldload
> efirt?
> > root_at_gryphon:~ # kldload efirt
> > kldload: can't load efirt: module already loaded or in kernel
> >
> > which I don't understand.
> >
> > I'm going to rebuild the kernel (currently GENERIC) and see if that
> allows
> > me to load efirt / use efibootmgr.
> >
> > In the meantime, I should be very grateful for any advice.
> >
> > ( Currently booting using a 11-RELEASE memstick image and dropping into
> its
> > loader to get to the installed 12-STABLE ).
> >
> > /Harry
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-- 
Harry Newton