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Date:      Fri, 27 May 2016 18:31:48 -0400
From:      Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
To:        Rafael Rodrigues Nakano <mseqs@bsd.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UEFI boot problem
Message-ID:  <27294407-6B25-418E-85BE-14AAEE75D7D9@metricspace.net>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2B627JrTQM3c6O9qWucLh8PfTRgMPCLnVTFdFiY8HXLJF_iBZA@mail.gmail.com>
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What terminal driver are you using?  This sounds like you don't have efifb i=
nstalled, and your graphics card isn't supported.

> On May 27, 2016, at 10:09, Rafael Rodrigues Nakano <mseqs@bsd.com.br> wrot=
e:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> I am trying to reinstall my FreeBSD in UEFI mode, primarly because I
> dual-boot with Windows 10 and for GPT partioned disks it must be UEFI, I
> need more than 4 partitions for both operating systems.
>=20
> So, the problem is, I got Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux and Debian Linux to boo=
t
> (from USB and from DVD) on UEFI mode, also installed ubuntu this way to
> make sure its not my computer's fault or USB stick problem (also DVD), but=

> when I try to boot from FreeBSD (I'm trying 11-CURRENT, but fails exactly
> the same way -RELEASE does.
>=20
> In my BIOS boot screen I select "UEFI: SanDisk USB ..." and it shows the
> FreeBSD boot screen (1: MultiUser [Enter] etc, with the beastie logo), and=

> whatever option I try (multi or single user) it fails the same. The pc
> simply hangs with a message "UEFI FrameBuffer information", something like=

> that with some hex values, but no response at all. Keyboard is dead, mouse=

> is dead, on/off button does nothing, need force shutdown.
>=20
> I tried with dd (on both Linux and in a FreeBSD bios installation), tried
> Linux's unetbootin, tried Rufus, Unetbootin, USI on Windows and none works=
.
> What could be wrong? Thanks in advance
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