Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:48:48 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HELP: UEFI/ZFS Boot failure: Ignoring Boot000A: Only one DP found Message-ID: <20190821194848.CSX4D%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <20190821145234.6fe455b4@freyja> References: <20190821145234.6fe455b4@freyja>
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O. Hartmann wrote in <20190821145234.6fe455b4@freyja>: |I ran into serious trouble booting several boxes off UEFI. On modern \ |hardware, |the ESP is around 200 - 300 MB in size and usually I install |/efi/freebsd/loader.efi, loader.efi taken from /boot/loader.efi. On \ |some older |hardware, specifically on a Lenovo E540 with latest available firmware \ |(2.28), |which uses 12-STABLE and a ZFS-only installation, there seems no working \ |loader |anymore! |The installation of the Laptop has been performed using 12.0-PRERELEASE \ |on an |Samsung EVO 860 500GB SSD. The ESP is 200M in size and contained |/efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi and /efi/boot/startup.nsh. It may be that the Lenovo BIOS/firmware searches for that specific Microsoft location EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi Onto which i radically (according to docu) moved refind_x64.efi: #?0|kent:~# ll /mnt/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmg* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1453056 Sep 14 2018 /mnt/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1469752 Mar 21 17:43 /mnt/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.safe -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 208776 Mar 21 17:43 /mnt/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi and that now finds its normal installation (etc.), simply copied via cp(1): #?0|kent:~# ll /mnt/EFI/refind/ total 260 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 21 17:13 drivers_x64 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 208776 Mar 21 17:14 refind_x64.efi drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 Mar 21 17:18 icons drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 13:39 vars drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 8 13:39 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32233 Apr 16 22:55 refind.conf drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 16 22:55 . ... |What is wrong here? What am I missing? Maybe that helps. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
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