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[109.149.43.109]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gf6sm3355874wjc.11.2014.12.11.14.37.54 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:37:54 -0800 (PST) Sender: Tom Jones Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 22:37:53 +0000 From: Tom Jones To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting on Asus T100TA Convertible Tablet Message-ID: <20141211223750.GA4426@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline Hackerspace: 57North Hacklab User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 22:37:57 -0000 --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Hackers, I have an Asus T100TA Convertible tablet thing that I have been unable to g= et FreeBSD to boot on. I have installed Ubuntu on it with these[1] instruction= s. There was some discussion[2] on getting FreeBSD on this hardware in April, = but the thread sort of died off. =20 The issue with the hardware stems from the 32bit UEFI with no compatibility mode. The BayTrails SOC is 64 bit. There does not seem to be 32 bit EFI support available in FreeBSD currently. The UEFI[3] mentions that i386 support will be added a later tim= e. I also came across this[4] summer of code project that claimed to add 32bit E= FI support. So EFI seems to be a dead end for now, so I thought I would try to use Grub= 2 to boot. I have a -CURRENT amd64 memstick img, I have tried booting it in the usb po= rt on the dock and via an USB OTG cable on the main tablet itself. I have also copied the root partition from the memstick image onto a partition on the internal mmc. I then attempt to boot using the grub cli like so: > insmod ufs2 > insmod bsd > set root=3D(hd0,gpt3) > kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel or > kfreebsd /boot/loader > boot Attempting to boot loader results in the grub cli hanging. Trying to boot t= he kernel directly adds a bar of noise at the top of the screen[5] and the pro= mpt hangs. The noise at the top appears to scroll slightly. On the suspicion that this might be a video issue I have tried setting the following loader variables from grub with the following command: > set kFreeBSD.hw.vga.textmode=3D1 set kFreeBSD.hw.vga.textmode=3D1 hw.vga.textmode=3D1 kern.vt.fb.default_mode=3D"1024x768" kern.vty=3Dvt kern.vty=3Dsc Setting these options either results in the same as[5] or no noise added at= the top of the screen. I am at a loss for what else to try, does anyone on the list have suggestio= ns or pointers? [1]: http://liliputing.com/2013/10/booting-ubuntu-asus-transformer-book-t10= 0.html [2]: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-April/257777= =2Ehtml [3]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/UEFI [4]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2012/IntelEFIBoot [5]: http://imgur.com/SdhXDxS --=20 Tom @adventureloop adventurist.me #pragma summon cthulhu :wq --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAABCgAGBQJUihy9AAoJEDetXgJOHpB8J44P+gP8sctAWLbbKN24czyEBKW2 +QOijiNhONMxcppfVX/BIH/d0rljSpxBIyKOFRKN0ux8n6CQtW/pD0J5VLT8JHTc 6nzQizhyKCiUXXu9kkepqJ6En3qYWlnb3NBFifKJVznkzcM0wwMIka68l59jtY10 7JRTKP0zOgkFbWMOdlwbe+LzOsfFP2Ues30kQh2EP4qYnzoGel0XLKEaRMCur9JS kthyOiEhDQSS0ZuejR8fhLAMOAQioIKp4sU5V7UFMY1nmFW62cj69HMldMf6elSn Fp2Esxg8R4O65ONyls5Jo04yTwCGf4cZpt674TowlC99mn/dxHN6ylKbE3g6pZ7J cmYdHoAKlkE4Or8/Eo1wQRMnHUq4XtXXWD5glKQQong3njxODyr0VbXg+ArVVExo mH/SJyZGu6P0kj+ubi3KjNzLSj5ngmGHmbP6bKzA29YPMUip+LZ3M+ynEEUjj3V+ i1prWVoUpUs4LUrUWuxyEk4aW7pBTtVjZ+mQMT3HQsVeAc+UEn8cjrRTdYfWFNRC lEi+zxeFAnZiq7ZipLXJL+Lx21Tw3d1FASs7nxUbu/06qKIRaCd3ri9Ze1conCAj JcHJercwOg7gd+0TQELW1zOdR5Rzs1+GUW6GokZMAvNec37R9rG23Jw+ILNxfrNW aI6qHNfJg8faGRniq0Il =sErr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy--