Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:15:04 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: "hartzell@alerce.com" <hartzell@alerce.com> Cc: Andreas Wrede <aew.freebsd@wrede.ca>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10.1, Mac Pro 2008, EFI, hangs at boot w/ "Start @0xfff...." Message-ID: <CAOc73CBHnra=QBFzA57xAGrRrVwP4kAvNC-KVZQNoHa9CLfs%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21884.59139.951381.344884@alacrity.local> References: <21883.35789.822027.413019@alacrity.local> <79D327FB-3310-4642-8B16-6361AC26BAE2@wrede.ca> <21884.59139.951381.344884@alacrity.local>
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On Sunday, June 14, 2015, George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote: > Andreas Wrede writes: > > > > > On Jun 12, 2015, at 21:47 , George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > I have a 2008 Mac Pro (NOT a MacBook) that's been happily running > > > FreeBSD for years via MBR partitioned disks. > > > [...] > > > I've recently been inspired to try the EFI booting stuff. > > > [...] > > > Booting either way exhibits the same symptom. /boot/loader.efi > > > runskoads the kernel and stuff but when it boots it prints > > > > > > Booting... > > > Start @0xffffffff802e7000 ... > > > _ > > > > > > (that's the address when booted from the SSD, the address for the 10.1 > > > USB stick is 0xffffffff802df060) > > > > > > and then hangs. > > > [...] > > > > My experience with a Mac Pro (2009) is similar. I tried to boot > > from CD and USB with FreeBSD 10.1 and a -current snapshot from > > about 2 weeks ago. A MacBook Pro (2010) booted without a problem > > with the both the 10.1 and -current USB images. The MacPro will be > > available for more testing in a week or two. > > The Mac Pro will boot the 10.1 DVD. > > I tried the EFI DVD and it shows the same symptoms as described above. > > BUT I noticed that even after the "Start @0xfff..." message displayed > and the system appeared to hang the DVD ground away for another minute > or two. Nothing else appeared on the console, but it sounded as if > something was happening. Perhaps the problem is "just" with the > console setup. > > g. > That sounds like you are experiencing this bug, which unfortunately has not been fixed yet: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193745 Unfortunately the new uefi boot does not work on some (or all?) macbooks. Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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