Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:54:06 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@sibptus.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Network installation on a UEFI-only box Message-ID: <20201223025406.GA25600@admin.sibptus.ru>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleagues, I've posted this question to freebsd-net, and the reaction was total silence. So reposting here. Now that there are many PCs with UEFI-only BIOSes (no legacy mode nor CSM), how can I install FreeBSD over network on those? I successfully boot iPXE from the network, then load FreeBSD installation media over http: dhcp sanboot http://192.168.170.5/tftpboot/FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memst= ick.img or=20 dhcp sanboot http://192.168.170.5/tftpboot/FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.i= so Good news: both images get transferred successfully over the network and start to boot. They even reach the "Loading kernel..." stage. Bad news: later they freeze or break at various points of the boot process. This is just one example of a frozen boot: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/IMG_20201221_190435.jpg if I press "Enter" here, it reboots. If anybody is interested I can probably produce more info. But first of all, please tell me if I have chosen the right technology (iPXE) for booting the installation media over the network, or maybe what I'm doing is stupid and there *is* the right way. Should I probably chainload FreeBSD's loader.efi instead of sanboot-ing the= disk images? In short, if anybody has the working technology already, please share it. --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJf4rFOAAoJEA2k8lmbXsY06C4IALYkvDyiwbo/3MxKmfnM6zy4 VpYcmFjMsVQVozsfUDUbECC2aj8dUtzu678knAK73FDCVCJ6sn9kKIhO3QG0bVBI d3QfGjCUHEdGtlJ2kj1pZwTdfAwYPFRfHiivqrn5BQL5VLxY0FXfSiVCo8J7aFuH oKryH+BBMxeELnoE6WhpJOFEwLR4B7Kgb73nZ3ia8ryrZPmaQwykGhqZBckgmSu3 NHq8gZCTOstmtsz6V85V9SvDMiAyZZ0qJcWnshzcce+Fhx9FrXd6ISJ2NCvmW2Ds 78ddeLZaWaGwc31ullZO9QYjlwsDKouwyfEzrjLkIjxceJ+CK1XlWsqY/jDcqOw= =IR29 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20201223025406.GA25600>