CURRENT: EFI boot failure

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 16 Sep 2014, at 00:05 , O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> 
> Installing FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20140903-r270990 on a Laptop works for UEFI fine.
> After I updated the sources to  r271649, recompiled world and kernel (as well as
> installed), now I get stuck with the screen message:
> 
>>> FreeBSD EFI boot block
>   Loader path: /boot/loader.efi
> 
> and nothing happens. After a couple of minutes, the system reboots.

The reboot comes from the EFI watchdog.


> What happened and how can this problem be solved?

One important thing for the people looking into this will be to know what hardware and if possible firmware revision you have.

— 
Bjoern A. Zeeb             "Come on. Learn, goddamn it.", WarGames, 1983