Boot failure - svn up from this morning

[Chris H]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 04:01:04 +0000 Dexuan Cui <decui at microsoft.com> wrote

> > From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Dexuan Cui
> > Hi Chris,
> > Thank you very much for the screenshots!!!
> > 
> > On the host there is a 1MB LoaderData memory range, which splits
> > the big Conventional Memory range into a small one (15MB) and a
> > big one: the small one is too small to hold the staging area.
> > 
> > I'm going to post a patch shortly.
> 
> Can you please try the below patch?
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9904
> You can find the URL of the "Download Raw Diff" in the page and
> 'wget' the patch and then apply it.
> 
> It should be able to fix the recent UEFI-boot issue introduced by me.
> 
> You may not need to re-buildworld. Please this link to replace the
> bad 'loader.efi':
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2017-March/064979.html
> 
> I'm planning to commit the patch later today in about 6 hours, because
> I'm pretty confident in the patch and it should fix the critical issue...

It may already be too late. But I just wanted to let you know that
I hadn't overlooked/discarded your message. $WORK$ is riding my a$$
pretty hard, and I'm not going to get a chance to catch my breath
till at least mid day. But I *do* plan to give this a shot, and
my earliest opportunity.

Thanks, Dexuan!

--Chris
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Dexuan