Re: Unable to boot from internal hard disks on new PC

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:47:49PM +0000, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 27/12/2022 12:46, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote:
>
>
> > …
> >
> > Output from efibootmgr:
> > +Boot000B* UEFI: USB 2.0 PENDRIVE 1.0, Partition 1
> >   Boot0008* UEFI OS
> >   Boot0002* UEFI: HTTP IPv4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
> >   Boot0003* UEFI: PXE IPv4 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
> >   Boot0004* UEFI: HTTP IPv6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
> >   Boot000A* UEFI: PXE IPv6 Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
> >
> > (-b 000b is the installation stick and 0008 the other stick I tested; both no problem)
> >
> > …
>
>
> If the intention is to use the EFI system partition at ada0p2, and if
> the operating system at ada0p4 is still bootable, and if you'll not boot

that's what I wanted, but I never could boot from ada0 (or another
ada#, only from da0 and da1).

ada0p4 still contains the system installed from Boot000B, i. e.
from the USB with FreeBSD-13.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img .
I can still boot from Boot000B.

> from the network: you can safely delete unwanted entries.

yes, I do not boot from the network; so does that mean that I
could delete Boot0002, Boot0003, Boot0004 and Boot000A?

> If Boot0008 is mysterious, you could try activating it (and then

Boot0008 is not mysterious; it's another USB containing a copy
of the system of my old PC and I can boot this also.
So I can boot from USB (da[01]), but not from the internal
disks (ada[0-3]).

> restarting the computer) to tell whether it's usable in relation to your
> installation of FreeBSD.
>
> Things here are very sparse, enough for FreeBSD to boot:
>
> root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ # efibootmgr
> Boot to FW : false
> BootCurrent: 0000
> Timeout    : 5 seconds
> root@mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd:~ #


I tried to add ada0 using
efibootmgr -a -c -l /mnt/efi/boot/BOOTx64.efi -L FreeBSD-13

that created an entry
 Boot0000* FreeBSD-13
but I didn't see a corresponding entry in bios after reboot
and the system booted again from 000b.


Best regards,
Johannes-Maria