Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:42:45 +0200 From: Anders Bolt-Evensen <andersbo87@icloud.com> To: David King <dking@ketralnis.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems starting X on Mac using vesa, radeon or intel drivers when running FreeBSD-CURRENT in EFI Message-ID: <53D01035.3000302@icloud.com> In-Reply-To: <2AE1EED7-8E9C-47EC-8AED-CDF446260E94@ketralnis.com> References: <53CBEC26.7080404@icloud.com> <2AE1EED7-8E9C-47EC-8AED-CDF446260E94@ketralnis.com>
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What I did was: Install subversion either from ports or via pkg install Get the newest source code from FreeBSD by running the command svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/head /usr/src (or whatever directory you might choose, I used /usr/src) Then I ran make buildworld from the new /usr/src directory. When make buildworld had completed, I cd-ed to /usr/src/release and ran sh ./generate-release.sh (this basically creates a chroot-ed environment, installs some tools, builds kernel and world and creates an ISO in /scratch/R/FreeBSD-something-disc1.iso). When the shell script generate-release.sh had completed, I ran the command mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /scratch/R/release/FreeBSD-something-disk1.iso -u 1 && mount -t cd9660 /dev/md1 /mnt. Then I created a new directory, /root/freebsd_generic_installer, copied the contents of /mnt/ to the new /root/freebsd_generic_installer directory and unmounted /mnt. The following commands are taken from https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI: > dd if=/dev/zero of=efiboot.img bs=4k count=100 > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f efiboot.img > newfs_msdos -F 12 -m 0xf8 -L "FREEBSD_EFI" /dev/md0 > mount -t msdosfs /dev/md0 /mnt > mkdir -p /mnt/efi/boot > cp /boot/loader.efi /mnt/efi/boot/bootx64.efi > umount /mnt > mdconfig -d -u 0 Finally I created the new custom ISO by running the following command: makefs -t cd9660 -o bootimage='i386;efiboot.img' -o no-emul-boot -o rockridge -o label=“FREEBSD_UEFI_INSTALL" -o publisher="test" discname.iso /root/freebsd_generic_installer/ For the above example to work, please make sure that /root/freebsd_generic_installer/etc/fstab has the following entry: /dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_UEFI_INSTALL / cd9660 ro 0 0, otherwise, the boot of the install DVD will stop with a mount error. This is how I got the EFI FreeBSD installer to boot. On 21/07/14 22:11, David King wrote: >> Last week, I created a custom ISO from the latest -CURRENT sources which contained an EFI image that is bootable on my MacBook Pro. >> Both installation and booting from this new FreeBSD 11 EFI system goes without any problems. > Somewhat off-topic, but can you detail how you did this? I've been at this unsuccessfully. Did you just do this <https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI#CD.2FDVD_Boot_under_UEFI>?
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