Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:23:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unable to boot Fujitsu Lifebook U904 from 10.0 installation DVD Message-ID: <10352.128.135.70.2.1414016629.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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Dear Experts, I did a stupid thing: I got myself a fancy new laptop ;-) ... Fujitsu Lifebook U904 Ultrabook. Ideally I was going to wipe the drive and have single system: FreeBSD. (And other systems under virtual box). I'm trying to boot the laptop off FreeBSD (10.0, 10.1 RC2, 9.2) installation DVD. All I get: "boot failure". I get the same when I try USB memory stick installer. I did a variety of changes in UEFI settings that are being suggested for successful boot of [installation media of] other than Windows 8 systems. In Security --> Secure boot configurations I disabled "Secure Boot", and I disabled "Secure boot options". I somehow am sure that that is not what prevents me to boot FreeBSD. I can boot several Linux installation DVDs and start installation: Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu. I didn't plan and don't want to install them though. I can boot ArchLinux (although the installer fails for whatever reason). Search on the web didn't reveal brilliant person who successfully installed FreeBSD on this particular laptop and was kind enough to describe non-trivial parts of the process. Any suggestions anybody? Thanks in advance for all your answers! Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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